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Definition of Affraying
1. affray [v] - See also: affray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affraying
Literary usage of Affraying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greek Bucolic Poets by Theocritus (1912)
"So came he into that meadow without affraying those maidens ; and they were
straightway taken with a desire to come near and touch the lovely ox, ..."
2. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1807)
"... though the same be barred against them in all manner of usual passage and
access, di.. quieting and affraying the inhabitants thereof j though generally ..."
3. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"... disquieting and affraying the inhabitants thereof; though generally (as our
Royal Master well ob- serveth in his most learned Dialogue on Demono- logie, ..."
4. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"... disquieting and affraying the inhabitants thereof; though generally (as our
royal master well ob- serveth in his most learned Dialogue on Demono- logie, ..."
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