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Definition of Slenderest
1. slender [adj] - See also: slender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slenderest
Literary usage of Slenderest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1852)
"... ere thy oft-trod banks 1 leave, Blithely, though with thread the slenderest,
1 the grateful rhyme will weave ; Yet receive my stranger ..."
2. Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification (1890)
"Yet he considered that as long as there was the slenderest chance of consolidating
a regime which had the semblance of being constitutional, it was the duty ..."
3. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Stigma bifid, the segments unequal, the upper one longest and slenderest, reflexed
at the point. For this grand and superb addition to our gardens, ..."
4. A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church by Henry Charles Lea (1896)
"... the other only from the merit of the individual.1 Thus the slenderest observances
acquire a sacramental value rendering them satisfactorily efficient, ..."
5. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1831)
"Stigma bifid, the segments unequal, the upper one longest and slenderest, reflexed
at the point. For this grand and superb addition to our gardens, ..."
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