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Definition of Palavered
1. palaver [v] - See also: palaver
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palavered
Literary usage of Palavered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"By the old system, in Indian affairs, our National Government palavered and
treated with the so-called "tribal governments" of Indians. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1869)
"We slept on the state couches, and palavered in the morning. The king's answer
to my application was given without any hesitation. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... with, we presume, the Honourable BUFFALO BILL CODT, palavered about an
International Arbitration Court. If the Hon. and Rev. BILL— "Reverend" because ..."
4. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1867)
"... this supreme effort in order to be bribed, or beguiled, or palavered, or
bullied, into its abandonment after the gage had been thrown down and accepted. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... Bowman had remained quiet he two white men "palavered." iscovered them," broke
in Hill, " I ¡tied to them. Io/zV/have them ! " vas beside himself. ..."
6. William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections by Henry James (1903)
"Mr Rufus Griswold stopped me the other day and carried me to the Tremont House
and palavered for a long time about you. The amount of his palaver was a ..."
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