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Definition of At the least
1. Adverb. Not less than. "A tumor at least as big as an orange"
Lexicographical Neighbors of At The Least
Literary usage of At the least
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"We can at the most (and also at the least) allow that this revival was a very
reasonable consequence of the increased stimulus to literary composition in ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... and making a brave resistance in every quarter, some catch at the least pretext
to go over to the enemy, and others make shift to skulk away, ..."
3. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"... and Polies (14) ; the first or least Proportion to contain such or so many of
the said Parcels as shall make up a thousand English Acres at the least ..."
4. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... she has a real genius for the business; and Ruskin told her she must paint a
portrait with no end of pains, must give it ' twenty sittings at the least. ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1850)
"IN Trinity College, Cambridge, and in Christ's Church, Oxford, are at the least
400 scholars. And the like number well near is to be seen in certain other ..."
6. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1853)
"... being established, he was set at liberty ; but he was dismissed from his
bailiff's office, and mulcted in the sum of four marks of gold, at the least. ..."
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