Lexicographical Neighbors of Demaine
Literary usage of Demaine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"... Of things that he can not demaine.—Chaucer in R. His herte was nothing in his
own demain.—Ibid. Come on with me, ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1889)
"And further that there is within the sayd Manner and the members thereof three
kinds of Lands, that is to say demaine land, which is commonly called Burie ..."
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