Lexicographical Neighbors of Defamings
Literary usage of Defamings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beaumont & Fletcher by Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1890)
"Not with the living ; They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em
truths ; they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces ; And, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"They feed upon opinions, errors, dreams, And make 'em truths; they draw a
nourishment Out of defamings, ..."
3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces, « And, when they see a virtue fortified «Strongly
ahove the batt'ry of their tongues, Oh, ..."
4. The Best Elizabethan Plays by Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, John Webster (1890)
"Out of defamings, grow upon disgraces : And, when they see a virtue fortified
Strongly above the battery of their tongues, 50 Oh, how they cast to sink it! ..."
5. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1820)
"Americans have too much delicacy, too just a sense of dignity to raise a revenue
out of such defamings. No advocate of the Cockney school was employed to ..."
6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1851)
"... dreams, And make them truths: they draw a nourishment Out of defamings, grow
upon disgraces, And when they see a virtue fortified Strongly above the ..."
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