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Definition of Purplest
1. purple [adj] - See also: purple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purplest
Literary usage of Purplest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Contributions Towards a by William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas James Wise (1896)
"At the end of the book is inserted a leaf containing the following list of
Errata :— Page 190, line i&,for purplest seat, read purplest beat. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"As volunteers Marlborough is said to have taken with him ' half of the purplest
blood of England' (ib. 11 June). Sailing on 1 June, tlii' troops landed ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger (1838)
"IL I saw beneath the gentle ray, The first of dawn upon the earth, The purplest
flower of infant May, The moment it had birth. The deep carnation's richest ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"Where the wild-thyme purplest blows, High o'er margin sedgy, Where the purest
Aqua flows, Drink that hero's ..."
5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"Full many a cow of purplest ray serene Is haply grazing where I may not see; Full
many a donkey writes of her, I ween. But neither of these creatures would ..."
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