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Definition of Bedimming
1. bedim [v] - See also: bedim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedimming
Literary usage of Bedimming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"It is precisely those superstitions which hang about your mind like bedimming
clouds, my Romola, that make one great reason why I could wish we were two ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1917)
"In this story it is not difficult to recognize a storm-myth thinly disguised: a
hero on a mountain ( = cloud) smites a large dragon bedimming the earth; ..."
3. A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1868)
"... an element of our social polity, we may confidently appeal to those future
ages, which, when the bedimming mists of passion and prejudice have vanished, ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"... which, when the bedimming mists of passion and prejudice have vanished, will
examine it in the pure light of truth, and pronounce the final sentence of ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1828)
"... most frequently into contact, but whom, nevertheless, they seldom or ever saw,
except through the bedimming or discolouring medium of party prejudice. ..."
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