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Definition of Candids
1. candid [n] - See also: candid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Candids
Literary usage of Candids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Ten Years, 1830-1840 by Louis Blanc (1844)
"... of the French government, respecting the projected union between the two
countries, the candids. ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1833)
"I hate the tribe of the candids: they are always hypocrites. Why not speak out ?
Let vice, and treachery, and avarice, each of them bear its own proper name ..."
3. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, American Social Science Association, Frederick Stanley Root, Isaac Franklin Russell (1871)
"... not to contain the names of any of the remaining candids s' It ia to be observed
that under these rules, the list of cand: s is closed after the surplus ..."
4. The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.) by John Lyly (1892)
"... though with ill lucke, behold if they bee not both together; let us stand
close and beare all, so shall we prevent all. Enter candids and LIVIA. ..."
5. The Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine United (1809)
"... from ll order more effectually I serve Christian faith, purr love. The church
put their date upon trial before the ing council. The candids himself ..."
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