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Definition of Descanting
1. descant [v] - See also: descant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Descanting
Literary usage of Descanting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"In this work, after descanting with some learning on the antiquity of the amusement,
he launches into a eulogy of the manly qualities which it fostered, ..."
2. The Works of Hannah More by Hannah More (1830)
"... glad to see some of these intellectual adorers in love with the mind of an
old or ugly woman. I never heard any of you fall into ecstasies in descanting ..."
3. Aristocracy in America by Francis Joseph Grund (1839)
"Observation of a Fashionable young Lady on American eating.—The Party after
Dinner.—An Amencan descanting on the Fashions. ..."
4. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources by James Wood (1899)
"S We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear
its ills without descanting on the burden. /,•*:•. ..."
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