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Definition of Detort
1. v. t. To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
Definition of Detort
1. Verb. to turn form the original or plain meaning ¹
2. Verb. to pervert ¹
3. Verb. to wrest ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detort
1. to distort [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: distort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detort
Literary usage of Detort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by John Oswald, Joseph Thomas, James Lynd, John Miller Keagy (1868)
"... to twist together ; detort', to twist, ... ^tort, n. detort', v. ... a.
tor'sion, n. detort'ing, a. Retort', v. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"15. detort, to twist aside, to wrest. Dryden, Pref. to Religio Laici, § 4. L.
detort-us, pp. of de-torquere, to twist aside. detract, to draw apart, ..."
3. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and by John Quincy Adams (1810)
"A figure of thought need not to detort the words from their literal sense.
It is on the contrary expressly termed a figure, not depending at all upon the ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Kyd by Thomas Kyd, Jacob Ayrer, Christopher Marlowe (1901)
"... detort to wrong sense B(ut) . . . III. RICHARD BAINES' NOTE ACCUSING MARLOWE
OF BLASPHEMY. <This document forms fols. 185-6 of Harleian MSS. 6848. ..."
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