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Definition of Championing
1. champion [v] - See also: champion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Championing
Literary usage of Championing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"... from Victor Hugo to Lamennais, are at war with the potentates whose cause they
began by championing with such ardour, and at war with that principle of ..."
2. A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster by Winifred Holt (1914)
"championing IN consequence of that Oxford meeting Fawcett arwm. entered another
arena. Bishop Wilberforce, representing the attitude of many not ..."
3. Solving the Country Church Problem by Garland Armor Bricker (1913)
"championing Rural Life.—Farmers form a class far more numerous than those engaged
in any other industry or business. The world is dependent for the ..."
4. Nugae Litterariae: Or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other Themes by William Mathews (1896)
"championing WHAT is more distasteful to a thinking Christianity man Wh0 has
weighed the arguments of in the Pulpit. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"WFS championing [champ-yuning] partc. The lads and men who go round as mummers
at Christmastide, singing carols and songs, are said to go championing. ..."
6. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"... by the fact that the Classic school, championing impersonality, is moving in
the wrong direction, while the Romantic school, championing personality, ..."
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