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Definition of High dudgeon
1. Noun. A feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase 'in high dudgeon').
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Dudgeon
Literary usage of High dudgeon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane: Or, The Dynamic Laws and by Edward Coit Rogers (1853)
"... of an'appro- priate nervine — Another vision of spirits — Spirits fled in high
dudgeon through a powerful cathartic — What do these facts demonstrate ? ..."
2. Philosophy of Mysterious Agents, Human and Mundane: Or, The Dynamic Laws and by Edward Coit Rogers (1856)
"Rapping medium " loses power under the influence of an appro- .. priate nervine —
Another vision of spirits — Spirits fled in high dudgeon through a ..."
3. The Eve of the Revolution: A Chronicle of the Breach with England by Carl Lotus Becker (1918)
"John Adams, somewhat unpopular for having defended and procured the acquittal of
the soldiers implicated in the Massacre, retired in high dudgeon from ..."
4. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"... but he was no more successful in face-to-face solicitations than by letter.1 He
returned to Sonoma in high dudgeon; talked of carrying his complaints to ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"Louis was furious ; and the abbé retired, in high dudgeon, to his convent.
By and by he endeavored to make peace, dedicating to the king a ..."
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