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Definition of Dispraisers
1. dispraiser [n] - See also: dispraiser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispraisers
Literary usage of Dispraisers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"... notably, in these latter days, by Mr Andrew Lang ; but, as it has been said
of Milton that the best answer to his dispraisers is to read him, ..."
2. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Charles Raymond Beazley (1896)
"... while in the latter he shows himself ever ready to defend him from his
dispraisers, and to convict of foolishness out of their own mouths the opponents ..."
3. Kind-heart's Dream: Containing Five Apparitions with Their Invectives by Henry Chettle (1841)
"... dispraisers is knowne, of their end they are not sure. For my life, it was to
none of them at any time hurtful : for my death, it was repentant: my ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1903)
"To those, on the other hand, his dispraisers who accuse him of plagiarism, etc., we
must remember that Shakspeare was not only a writer, but an <n1<t/>trr ..."
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