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Definition of Defied
1. defy [v] - See also: defy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defied
Literary usage of Defied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"Men were dragged is defied to prison till the jails were full. The fact that he
could keep up ... Outside the city his authority was more easily defied. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and the auxiliaries which guarded that island, to embrace his party, and boldly
assuming, with the imperial purple, the title of Augustus, defied the ..."
3. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"As it FATE defied Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O fate, thy grey, And go
mistily radiant, clad Like the moon. THE PLEDGE White doves of Cytherea, ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... renouncing all idea of resistance to his will; and another to spare the armed
and stubborn burghers, who had so long defied and baffled his efforts. ..."
5. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"It is appropriate that a building which has so successfully defied the touch of
Time should be a treasure-house of Art. Few European palaces can equal it in ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... whom she continually defied nose. carelessness, provoking and delightful; of
Tho' she loves a craped head and is fond of a her coquetries and her ..."
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