Definition of Malory

1. Noun. English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471).

Exact synonyms: Sir Thomas Malory, Thomas Malory
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malory

Mallory's iodine stain
Mallory's phloxine stain
Mallory's phosphotungstic acid haematoxylin stain
Mallory's stain
Mallory's trichrome stain
Mallory's triple stain
Mallory-Weiss lesion
Mallory bodies
Malmo
Malone
Maloney bougies
Maloney leukaemia virus
Malope trifida
Malopterurus
Malopterurus electricus
Malory (current term)
Malosma
Malosma laurina
Malpighi
Malpighia glabra
Malpighia obovata
Malpighiaceae
Malpighian
Malpighian corpuscle
Malpighian corpuscles
Malraux
Malt-O-Meal
Malta
Malta Island
Malta fever

Literary usage of Malory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Frank Edgar Farley, Harvard University Dept. of Modern Languages (1896)
"THAT a person so important in literary history as Sir Thomas Malory should still remain a ... Mr. Sidney Lee refers to a Sir Thomas Malory of Kirkby Malory, ..."

2. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"Malory has penned the great and chief romance of his own age and of ours, ... Malory is skilled " to teach men unto strange adventures," to instruct in all ..."

3. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"Malory has penned the great and chief romance of his own age and of ours, ... Malory is skilled " to teach men unto strange adventures," to instruct in all ..."

4. Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature by Dept. of Modern Languages, Harvard University (1903)
"Sir Thomas Malory, or rather one of his French authorities, knew a version ... Malory certainly drew this incident of the wounded Urre from a French source. ..."

5. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"The work which Malory undertook was of a different character, ... Until 1896 nothing was known of Malory beyond the information given in the first edition ..."

6. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"SIR THOMAS Malory (c. 1400-1471) Concerning the life of the author of the Morte d'Arthur little is known. He was born about the year 1400, ..."

7. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"So it was that Malory was led to gather, from various sources, all the traditions he could find " concerning the valor and the victories of the most ..."

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