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Definition of Abrupter
1. abrupt [adj] - See also: abrupt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abrupter
Literary usage of Abrupter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"K, cool and self-possessed, repeated his abrupter ejaculations in more delicate,
round-about fashion. „ »,-™nt> who has come back in a brown billycock ..."
2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"They are uplifted in imagination, but their fancy takes shorter and abrupter
flights, and they are easily diverted by what is extravagant and preposterous. ..."
3. The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old Field: To which is Appended a by Hugh Miller (1892)
"Almost all mountain chains present their abrupter escarpements to the sea, though
separated from it in many instances by hundreds of miles — a consequence, ..."
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