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Definition of Dryasdust
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dryasdust
Literary usage of Dryasdust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I ANTI-dryasdust WHAT and how great are the interests which
connect themselves with the hope that England may yet attain to some ..."
2. A Series of Letters from London Written During the Years 1856, '57, '58, '59 by George Mifflin Dallas, Julia Dallas (1869)
"... shrink from the sarcasm of Carlyle, who, in his Life of Frederick the Great,
calls all antiquaries by Scott's descriptive cognomen, dryasdust. ..."
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