Lexicographical Neighbors of Candours
Literary usage of Candours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... due solely to the charm of the young lady, and the enthusiasm of her patroness,
were quite enough to set in motion the tongues of the Mrs. candours and ..."
2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1859)
"... candours, and Malaprops. Histrionic ladies in general fall into a great mistake,
from a natural disinclination to adopt the old women, until they are ..."
3. Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys (1915)
"... followers is that in these Wessex novels there is none of that intolerable "ethical
discussion" which obscures "the old essential candours" of the human ..."
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