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Definition of Citizenly
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Citizenly
Literary usage of Citizenly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Citizen: A Study of the Individual and the Government by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1907)
"A little consideration of the subject of manners will show that the matter is of
sufficient importance to lift it to the level of citizenly duty and ..."
2. The Letters of William James by William James (1920)
"... and to be satisfied with the domestic and citizenly virtues (probably only
for the reason that I am temporarily debarred from exercising any of them, ..."
3. The Lower South in American History by William Garrott Brown (1902)
"untarily or involuntarily, the negroes forego their citizenly rights wherever,
by reason of their numbers, they might control. ..."
4. Races and Immigrants in America by John Rogers ( Commons (1907)
"They have no large sense of citizenly motives; they feel no sense of responsibility
for any part of the public life save that which lies within their own ..."
5. Races and Immigrants in America by John Rogers Commons (1913)
"They have no large sense of citizenly motives; they feel no sense of responsibility
for any part of the public life save that which lies within their own ..."
6. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"They have no large sense of citizenly motives; they feel no sense of responsibility
for any part of the public life save that which lies within their own ..."
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