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Definition of Brittlest
1. brittle [adj] - See also: brittle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brittlest
Literary usage of Brittlest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"T.ove with white-lead cement«his wings: White-lead was sent us to repair Two
brightest, brittlest, earthly things, A lady's face, and China-ware. ..."
2. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1897)
"hand the strongest, brittlest rocks in the deepest zone observable may be partly
deformed by complex fracturing along intersecting shearing planes, but, ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1868)
"The dwellers in the most transparent and brittlest of glass houses are not
precisely those who should begin throwing stones at their neighbours. ..."
4. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"Good Name, how it is both the Best and brittlest thing that is. A Good name is,
among all externals, both the best and most brittle blessing. If it be true, ..."
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