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Definition of Definably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Definably
Literary usage of Definably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tertium Quid: Chapters on Various Disputed Questions by Edmund Gurney (1887)
"of some of it, on the ground that no sharp line can be drawn between the music
which is and that which is not definably expressive—that there are any number ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"Words spelled differently are different words. Puer is a definably different
creature from puella, whatever the likeness. Under the subclass Teleostomi, ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"Amongst the Dramas, we find two which detach themselves from the rest as possessing
remarkable dramatic qualities, but failing, more or less definably, ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... that the music was presented without scenic accessories. definably striking
and imminent which, just about to be disclosed, did not quite appear. ..."
5. Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups by Harvey Daniels (2002)
"Most of Marianne's evaluation activities are not definably separate from her
teaching—and her teaching is always, in part, evaluative. ..."
6. Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates by Helen Thomas Follett, Wilson Follett (1918)
"Yet that intuition has entered, it seems to us, upon a definably new phase, not
dating indeed from any single event or even from any single decade, ..."
7. The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays by Frank Norris (1903)
"... warp original talent and definably and irretrievably stamp out the last spark
of productive ability one knows of none more effective than the literary ..."
8. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"To do this well, to arrange the species group within group most definably as well
as most naturally, tasks the powers and the patience of a systematic ..."
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