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Definition of Defying
1. defy [v] - See also: defy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defying
Literary usage of Defying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... defying THE FRENCH ARISTOCRACY (From a Speech against the Nobility and Clergy
of Provence, February 3d,) IN ALL countries, in all ages, have aristocrats ..."
2. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"He writes to Dante, then in exile at Verona, defying him as no better than himself.
DANTE ALIGHIERI, if I jest and lie, I get my dinner, you your supper, ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1908)
"... Present Tactics—Mayor Johnson's Splendid Victory for the Citizens of
Cleveland—^Governor Folk on Public Servants and the Law-defying Criminal Rich— Is ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... to be levying of war, and high treason ; and sir John Hotham's defying his
majesty to his face, keeping his majesty's town, fort, and goods against him, ..."
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