Lexicographical Neighbors of Dizening
Literary usage of Dizening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"... i' th' dead o' the night, as it's enough to make one's back run cold, but you
must be 'dizening yourself as if there was a wedding istid of a funeral ? ..."
2. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1848)
"... was seen,' not fit in verity to be the mate of the immortal mind of man : no
perfumes can make her sweet, no dizening render the Jezebel attractive. ..."
3. The Hallamshire Glossary by Joseph Hunter (1829)
"Of a young woman at her toilette it will be said, " she is a long time in dizening
herself." DOFF, to put off (or do off) any part of ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, Robert Leighton: To by Robert Leighton, John Norman Pearson (1825)
"Averse as he was to parade of all kinds, and especially to dizening out religion
in modish draperies, yet he was not for shrouding her in a gloomy cowl, ..."
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