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Definition of Readiest
1. ready [adj] - See also: ready
Lexicographical Neighbors of Readiest
Literary usage of Readiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"... had a mind to be rid of you, and took the readiest way to pall you with an
offer of what you would never desist pursuing while yf«u received ill usage. ..."
2. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... offering voluntarily to go to the Fort themselves, and endeavour to find out
the Truth of the Whole, it was so agreed at my House; and as their readiest ..."
3. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... he might set out with such ample expedients of security. expedition; for these,
to my apprehension, are the readiest means to secure the public welfare, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"former days — but the only pleasure in writing is to write whatever comes readiest
to the pen. My wife and Anne send kindest compliments of congratulation, ..."
5. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"... a testimony of them.1 And his appealing to those records for the truth of what
he wrote, was the readiest way he could take to gain authority thereto. ..."
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