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Definition of Barest
1. bare [adj] - See also: bare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barest
Literary usage of Barest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"In the brief space necessarily allotted to so technical and obscure a subject,
it is manifestly impossible to attempt more than the barest ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"To limit thus the enjoyment of food to the barest necessities, or to refrain from
certain designated articles of food constitutes " abstinence " in the ..."
3. Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1908)
"When Nature triumphed in England, subduing men to the barest needs of a brute
existence, landscapes were teachers of a very formidable kind. ..."
4. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1865)
"The simplest affirmation of the existence and fatherhood of God—the barest
statement of theistic belief—is as ..."
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