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Definition of Paltrier
1. paltry [adj] - See also: paltry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paltrier
Literary usage of Paltrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"The cockney with his nimbler wit and paltrier ideals had intervened, and fixed
for all time certain lineaments of the city. No longer is it dominated by ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Francis Vesey, John Beames, John Scott Eldon (1813)
"... for an Injunction> holds, Injunction granted against suine ^n Hart> Serjeant
paltrier, ..."
3. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1894)
"Meaner still are the paltrier loans—the loans of phrase or witty turn. Even if
it be pleaded that a tangle of quotations comes apt to the purpose of ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"... vain man, preferred a lowlier home, An easier triumph and a paltrier reign ;
Therefore his name is blotted from the Tome Of Fame's enduring record, ..."
5. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1857)
"... each day necessarily consumed by worrying and distasteful tasks of a much
paltrier kind. On the day after the Inauguration came word from Major Anderson ..."
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