Definition of Mattered

1. Verb. (past of matter) ¹

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Definition of Mattered

1. matter [v] - See also: matter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mattered

matte
matte up
matted
mattedly
matter
matter-of-course
matter-of-fact
matter-of-factly
matter-of-factness
matter of course
matter of fact
matter of law
matter of record
matter of time
matter to
mattered (current term)
mattereth
matterful
mattering
matterless
matterlike
matters
matterwave
matterwaves
mattery
mattes
matteuccite
mattheddleite
mattie
matties

Literary usage of Mattered

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

1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"A shape with amice wrapped around, With a wrought Spanish baldric bound, 460 Like pilgrim from beyond the sea; And knew — but how it mattered not — It was ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... as the legal signification of the language used was plain, it mattered not in point of law what the testator intended; the sole question being, ..."

3. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"It little mattered what form of weakness I put forth by way of baffling my Father's direct, firm, unflinching strength. ..."

4. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Of course she had seen them at court and at Lord Melville's, as she might have seen thousands of Scotchmen besides ; but what mattered it to me, ..."

5. Renascence: And Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917)
"... THREE SONGS OF SHATTERING I THE first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. ..."

6. Narrative of a Tour from the State of Indiana to the Oregon Territory in the by Joseph Williams, James Carlton Bell (1921)
"It mattered little that almost two thousand miles of prairie, mountain and desert separated the border towns of Independence and Westport, Missouri, ..."

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