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Definition of Belaboring
1. belabor [v] - See also: belabor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belaboring
Literary usage of Belaboring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Robert Black, Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Guizot (François) (1884)
"They had to see whether they could kill the said pig, and when they thought they
were belaboring it most they were belaboring one another. ..."
2. A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures to Manchester College on the by William James (1909)
"The psychology of our own day disavows them utterly,' and Green's laborious
belaboring of poor old Locke for not having first seen that his ideas of ..."
3. Travels in England, France, Italy and Ireland by George Foxcroft Haskins (1856)
"We all mounted, and were each provided, not with a whip, but with an immense
cudgel, to answer the double purpose of belaboring the beasts, and assisting ..."
4. Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold (1866)
"it is quaint to compare Ajax to an ass whom boys are belaboring." Here, too, Mr.
Newman goes much too fast, and his category of quaintness is too ..."
5. The National Sunday School Teacher by Chicago Sunday School Union (1877)
"She mounts a mule, and after the fashion in that country, a servant ran behind,
belaboring the animal to quicken its pace. He is told not to spare the beast ..."
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