Lexicographical Neighbors of Slighters
Literary usage of Slighters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alexander and Rufus: Or, A Series of Dialogues on Church Communion, in Two by John Anderson (1820)
"And would not "our Lord Jesus and his apostles have refused to admit persons to
sealing ordinances, who were open opposers, slighters or contemners of any ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1851)
"They are slighters of Christ, who have means of knowledge, and yet know him not;
they know him not, because they will not be acquainted with him; Job xxi. ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1840)
"And such as are not insolent, nor mockers, nor slighters of others in their own
disposition. And generally such as are of a contrary disposition to those ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1840)
"And such as are not insolent, nor mockers, nor slighters of others in their own
disposition. And generally such as are of a contrary disposition to those ..."
5. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Let me, therefore, by these following questions, try whether none of you are
slighters of Christ and your own salvation. And follow me, I beseech you, ..."
6. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1833)
"... the observation of the preceeding reports, clearly confirme the Doctrine of
the Sabboth, and the practise of prayer : Oh tremble ye Sabboth-slighters, ..."
7. The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise on the Blessed State of the by Richard Baxter (1872)
"... man in bedlam so truly mad as wilful sinners, and unworthy slighters of Christ
and glory ! This makes a dying man usually wiser than others, ..."
8. The Book-hunter Etc. by John Hill Burton (1882)
"Romans as introducers of Christianity into Great Britain, 360, 379 —as slighters
of history, 360 et seq. Rout upon Rout, by Felix Nixon, Roxburghe Club, 97, ..."
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