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Definition of Aslant
1. Adverb. Over or across in a slanting direction.
2. Adjective. Having an oblique or slanted direction.
Similar to: Inclined
Derivative terms: Diagonal, Diagonal, Diagonal
3. Adverb. At an oblique angle. "The sun shone aslant into his face"
Definition of Aslant
1. adv. & a. Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
2. prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart.
Definition of Aslant
1. Adjective. slanting ¹
2. Adverb. at a slant ¹
3. Preposition. (archaic) diagonally over or across ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aslant
1. slanting [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aslant
Literary usage of Aslant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the New England Whalers by John Randolph Spears (1908)
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2. Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona by Elizabeth Wood Kane (1874)
"... and —emblem of desolation—an abandoned graveyard, where the gray tombstones
were aslant, and half-buried in the drifting sand that had begun to wear ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... DO counterfeited Substance, That my foot hung aslant adown the edge. Was it
my own fear? Fear too hath its instincts! (And yet such dens as these are ..."
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