Definition of Tom Paine

1. Noun. American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809).

Exact synonyms: Paine, Thomas Paine
Generic synonyms: American Revolutionary Leader, Pamphleteer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tom Paine

Toltecs
Tolu balsam
Toluca
Tolyatti
Tolypeutes
Tolypeutes tricinctus
Tom Bradley
Tom Collins
Tom Collinses
Tom Hanks
Tom Joneses
Tom Paine (current term)
Tom Sawyer
Tom Stoppard
Tom Thumb
Tom Tom
Tom Wolfe
Tom and Jerry
Toma's sign
Tomahawk
Tomalin
Tomas de Torquemada
Tombaugh
Tombigbee
Tombigbee River
Tomblin

Literary usage of Tom Paine

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

1. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Tom Paine was considered for the time a Tom Fool to him ; Paley an old woman ; Edmund Burke a flashy sophist. "Throw away your books of chemistry," said ..."

2. Horae Sabbaticae: Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review by James Fitzjames Stephen (1892)
"The ribaldry of Voltaire, the polished sneer of Gibbon, and the coarse brutality of Tom Paine, usually swing at one end of the see-saw, the other end of ..."

3. Men and Times of the Revolution: Or, Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, Includng by Elkanah Watson (1856)
"Rennes—Moreau—Customs—Fashionable Dinner—Tom Paine—Contest with a Priest—Louis Littlepage—Journey to Paris—Country Cure— Monks of La Trappe—Mrs. ..."

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