MW Quotations and Authors: And so doth it480 apere,For481 the grene bare thredes 60Loke lyke sere wedes,Wyddered lyke hay,The woll worne away;And yet I dare sayeShe thynketh herselfe gayeVpon the holy daye,Whan she doth her aray,And gyrdeth in her gytes482Stytched…
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Absolve
MW Explore absolve and absolved in D. H. Lawrence. Examples of usage by other authors: I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me. It began to confess to…
Prepossessing
MW Explore Prepossessing in the context of the full text in the works of Austen Dickens Melville James Some examples of usage, including by other authors: …yet the degree of harshness inseparable from Galliclineaments was, in his case, softened by…
Esoteric
MW Quotations and Authors: With an easy condescension, and kind forbearance towards our stupidity,—which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime,—would he forthwith, by the merest touch of his finger, make the incomprehensible as clear…
Gadabout
MW Quotations and Authors: “Then must I hew a passage,” cried the stranger, with his shoulder braced round and his hand upon his hilt. “I am not to be stopped on the king’s service by every gadabout.” “Should you be…
Nostrum
MW Quotations and Authors: I am most apprehensive about Miss Howe. She has a confounded deal of wit, and wants only a subject, to shew as much roguery: and should I be outwitted with all my sententious boasting of conceit…
Categorical
Word of the Day: MW Quotations and Authors: Now, Belford, I had really some apprehension of treachery from thee; which made me so miserably evade; for else, I could as safely have sworn to the truth of this, as to…
Words of the Day: December 19 2020 – January 28 2021
To explore quotations for the OED or Merriam-Webster Word of the Day 19/12/2020-28/1/2021, follow this link. Jeopardy Itinerant Ear-tickling Obeisance Insouciance Sarcophagus Gulosity Conjecture Preeminent Modicum Effusive Servile Nevvy Rapport Pedantic Treason Haet Devious Pugilism Comely Megrim Dissociate Apologia Feckless…
‘Spontaneous’ through the centuries: 1658 – 1921; ‘Spontaneous Combustion’ – a fashionable metaphor? (Dickens, Bronte, Melville, Joyce); the concept of ‘Spontaneous’ and ‘Spontaneity’ in Lawrence’s Fantasia of the Unconscious
Our collage ‘Quotations, Authors and Literary Works’ was inspired by the Word of the Day ‘Spontaneous‘ posted by Merriam-Webster on 10/12/2020. In the collage, we show you the quotations with ‘Spontaneous’ from different centuries without disclosing the name of the…