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Definition of Doughtiest
1. doughty [adj] - See also: doughty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doughtiest
Literary usage of Doughtiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Romance, Vision & Satire: English Alliterative Poems of the Fourteenth Century by Jessie Laidlay Weston (1912)
"... of the doughtiest is he deemed aright, For with a sling he slew, by skilful
sleight, Goliath great, a giant grim to meet, And in his days indited psalms ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... All the grief that about the great City of Priam the King we bare, As there
we fought and there perished all those that the doughtiest were. ..."
3. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1900)
"He was by all odds the most magnetic chieftain and the doughtiest warrior, the
most disinterested patriot who ever appeared in Gaul. ..."
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