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Definition of Swinishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swinishness
Literary usage of Swinishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... and, to lead him out of swinishness, power was needed, and this was gone; a
stick was needed, but we had become liberal and had suddenly exchanged the ..."
2. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"-poli- tik foul play, -ri [n] swinishness, filthiness. -ryg chine of pork.
-slagter pork-butcher. ..."
3. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1910)
"Under his rebuke pride had owned itself to be swinishness, and he bade it depart.
The seemingly cruel fate of the animals did not come through him. ..."
4. Select Translations from Scaliger's Poetics by Giulio Cesare Scaligero (1905)
"... from swinishness conviction in court, and from the court's sentence, fetters
and gangrene and a fine). ..."
5. The New Godiva and Other Studies in Social Questions by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman (1885)
"... and if he may be said to ring the changes at all, rings them for ever upon
lust and swinishness and sordidness and ruin, upon ruin and sordidness and ..."
6. Works by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... and, to lead him out of swinishness, power was needed, and this was gone; a
stick was needed, but we had become liberal and had suddenly exchanged the ..."
7. Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog by Johannes Magnussen (1902)
"-poli- tik foul play, -ri [n] swinishness, filthiness. -ryg chine of pork.
-slagter pork-butcher. ..."
8. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1910)
"Under his rebuke pride had owned itself to be swinishness, and he bade it depart.
The seemingly cruel fate of the animals did not come through him. ..."
9. Select Translations from Scaliger's Poetics by Giulio Cesare Scaligero (1905)
"... from swinishness conviction in court, and from the court's sentence, fetters
and gangrene and a fine). ..."
10. The New Godiva and Other Studies in Social Questions by Elizabeth Rachel Chapman (1885)
"... and if he may be said to ring the changes at all, rings them for ever upon
lust and swinishness and sordidness and ruin, upon ruin and sordidness and ..."
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