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Definition of Commonest
1. common [adj] - See also: common
Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonest
Literary usage of Commonest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles ( Dickens (1865)
"There is sometimes an odd disposition in this country todies?- improbable in
fiction, what are the commonest ..."
2. Arbor Day, Its History, Observance, Spirit and Significance: Its History by Robert Haven Schauffler (1909)
"THE commonest DELIGHT BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER To OWN a bit of ground, to scratch
it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of life — this is ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... here of satisfactory quality, but, with the exception of the very commonest,
practically all fine organic chemicals must be imported from Germany. ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(6) The Diffuse Arteriolar (Sclerotic) Nephropathy or commonest Form of Chronic
Nephropathy with Arterial Hypertension and Without Renal Dropsy (Primary ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"The commonest criticism one hears of Book Review advertising— it always comes,
by the way, from a publisher who is not using it—is that he "can't see ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1905)
"... The commonest, according to Knapp's analysis of the recorded cases, is the
paralytic, in which the legs give out as the patient attempts to ..."
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