2. Adjective. Most abrupt ¹
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Definition of Abruptest
1. abrupt [adj] - See also: abrupt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abruptest
Literary usage of Abruptest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1908)
"When are you at home? " "When you like." "Breakfast-time?" said Jenny, in her
abruptest and shortest manner. " No better time in the day," said ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Daring and rapacious, with marvellous power of steerage, it follows the abruptest
turns of its victims with the greatest ease, gliding after them in a low, ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"He hears the funeral dirge in which his actions are celebrated in most grandiloquent
sing-song, descending at last to the abruptest bathos. ..."
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