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Definition of Primmest
1. prim [adj] - See also: prim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primmest
Literary usage of Primmest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade: Count O'Connell, and Old Irish Life by Morgan John O'Connell (1892)
"The primmest, grimmest, austerest respectability was considered evidently to be
Hunting Cap's strong point. Counsellor Dominic Trant, MP, to Counsellor John ..."
2. The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade: Count O'Connell, and Old Irish Life by Mary Anne Bianconi O'Connell (1892)
"The primmest, grimmest, austerest respectability was considered evidently to be
Hunting Cap's strong point. Counsellor Dominic Trant, MP, to Counsellor John ..."
3. A Diary from Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1905)
"is the neatest, the primmest, the softest of women. Her voice is like the gentle
cooing of a dove. That lowering black future hangs there all the same. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... Form'd like a maid, with folded hands, Which finely drest, with primmest grace,
Receives the culprit's first embrace; But at the second (dismal wonder! ..."
5. The New Fiction: And Other Essays on Literary Subjects by Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... into accordance with the primmest Dutch taste is human nature still, and that
it was within the power of the botanical expert to trace the affinities of ..."
6. The Century (1902)
"... selected and unrefined society of the metropolis, while, for other qualities,
it is as free from taint as the primmest of New England " sugar eats. ..."
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