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Definition of Closely knit
1. Adjective. Held together as by social or cultural ties. "The group was closely knit"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closely Knit
Literary usage of Closely knit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of England: from the Norman conquest by Agnes Strickland (1848)
"... in which the English and Flemish merchants were so closely knit The champion
of England was sir Edward Dymoke, whose portrait, preserved in the College ..."
2. Eminent British Lawyers by Henry Roscoe (1830)
"aside with indulgence, as you do a child when it is lisping its prattle out of
season." Of the closely-knit arguments and the ..."
3. The New Psychology and Its Relation to Life by Arthur George Tansley (1920)
"Both the philosopher and the navvy will certainly have mental complexes connected
with their respective work, whether these complexes be closely knit and ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"This is a closely knit and rapidly moving narrative and should find a ... As one
closes the long closely-knit narrative of the years between the siege of ..."
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