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Definition of Belittler
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belittler
Literary usage of Belittler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783-1919 by George Peabody Gooch (1922)
"Canning, an enthusiastic admirer of Pitt and a persistent belittler of Addington,
pointed the contrast between them in his celebrated song: And oh! if again ..."
2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1897)
"We are not quite prepared to way all this of Ver- lune himself, but the doctrine
is of wide application, and gives pause to the professional belittler of ..."
3. Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Studies in Their Works by Henry Houston Bonnell (1902)
"1 Even that belittler of woman's art, Mr. Saintsbury, says in his Preface to '
Pride and Prejudice ': In the novels of the last one hundred years, ..."
4. The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1893)
"He is no belittler of the chroniclers ; for he believes that they possessed "
the inspiration of a truthful spirit and of a clear intellect," and that ..."
5. The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-fifth President of the United States by Murat Halstead (1902)
"There is no concession to the anarchist, the traitor or the belittler of our
country in this. This is the essential matter of the McKinley Philippine policy ..."
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