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Definition of Donnean
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or in the manner of John Donne.
Definition of Donnean
1. Adjective. Of or relating to (w John Donne) (1572–1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donnean
Literary usage of Donnean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"Code Noir, Edit du mois de Political History of the United States, donnean mois
de Mars 1724, art. 10, J Brevard, Digest of the Public p. 288 sq. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"... imd donnean, which were adopted by Pothier. (See the history of the law on
this subject, as given by Troplong, Cautionnement, sec. 281 et seq. ..."
3. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1884)
"donnean, 9 Allen, 140, where It was also held that evidence of express representations
of chastity was unnecessary. In Baiter r. Baker, 13 Cal 87. the child ..."
4. Proceedings (1903)
"M. l'abbé donnean. — En ce cas, votre premier vœu, tendant à l'enlèvement de la
direction des patronages au clergé, n'a plus de raison d'être. ..."
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