Lexicographical Neighbors of Distinctest
Literary usage of Distinctest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's by John Lawson Stoddard (1910)
"... appointed to read the lessons of the day; and he that read loudest, distinctest,
and best was to have a halfpenny on Sunday to put in the poor's box. ..."
2. History of the Christian Philosophy of Religion from the Reformation to Kant by Bernhard Pünjer (1887)
"The gospel is also a rule which is verified by the clearest and distinctest ideas
of the natural reason, and it therefore deserves to be accepted as a rule ..."
3. Sermons Preached in Manchester by Alexander Maclaren (1886)
"On the one side there is the distinctest knowledge of a Divine purpose that will
be executed; on the other side there is the ..."
4. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"Although projected outwards (usually not farther than the limit of distinctest
vision, a foot or so) the pseudo-hallucinations lacked the character of ..."
5. The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (1920)
"... but this description, nevertheless, will give the ordinary Englishman the
distinctest impression of the President. With this picture of him in mind, ..."