Definition of Diatribes

1. Noun. (plural of diatribe) ¹

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Definition of Diatribes

1. diatribe [n] - See also: diatribe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diatribes

diatomic
diatomics
diatomite
diatomites
diatomous
diatoms
diatonic
diatonic scale
diatonic scales
diatonically
diatonism
diatoric
diatreme
diatremes
diatribe
diatribes (current term)
diatribist
diatribists
diatrizoate
diatrizoate meglumine
diatrizoic acid
diatron
diatrons
diatropic
diatryma
diatrymas
diatyposis
diaxial
diaxially
diaxon

Literary usage of Diatribes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope by Hester Lucy Stanhope, Charles Lewis Meryon (1846)
"... diatribes on women — Mr. C.—Letter to Miss Letter to the Author. Again the necessity occurs of introducing my personal affairs, in order to keep up the ..."

2. A History of My Time: Memoirs of Chancellor Pasquier by Etienne-Denis Pasquier, Edme Armand Gaston Audiffret-Pasquier (1893)
"... de Labarre — An answer to the diatribes of Voltaire and La Harpe —An unpublished letter of apology from Voltaire —A young man's education under the old ..."

3. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St. James by James Hardy Ropes (1916)
"The imperatives are not only numerous (nearly sixty times in the 108 verses), but, as in the diatribes, are sometimes ironical ..."

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