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Definition of Donning
1. don [v] - See also: don
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donning
Literary usage of Donning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare's Library: A Collection of the Plays, Romances, Novels, Poems by William Carew Hazlitt, John Payne Collier (1875)
"... To the worshipfull Master lohn donning, Custo- mer and Jurate of the ...
gentle M. donning, I could not deuise any meanes more effectual, ..."
2. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"The pope had entered the church long enough for a prayer to be said before the
altar, and for donning a rich pluvial and precious miter. ..."
3. The Rites of the Twice-born by Sinclair Stevenson (1920)
"... of Ganesa—The Vigil—The Next Morning—The Young Men's Feast—The Thread itself—The
donning of it—The Giving of the Deerskin, Staff, Water, ..."
4. Campaigning with Grant by Horace Porter (1897)
"F. SMITH'S ATTACK ON PETERSBURG—donning SUMMER UNIFORM AT dark on the evening of
June 12 the famous march /% to the James began. ..."
5. Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Wesson Gage Miller (1875)
"Washington Wilcox—Upper and Nether Millstones—Our New Field—Revival—Four
Sermons—Platform Missionary Meetings—The Orator—donning the Eldership—The ..."
6. The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a by Rossiter Johnson (1903)
"... hath gone in proud array, To drive afar from fair Westmeath the Irish kerns
away ; And there is mounting brisk of steeds, and donning shirts of ..."
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