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Definition of Eschewal
1. the act of eschewing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eschewal
Literary usage of Eschewal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1905)
"it were so, how do we reconcile the recognition of the poetical element (such as
it is), as shown by the Prologue, with the eschewal of it as manifested by ..."
2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"... and fail to enjoy his eschewal of all the ordinary spurious complications and
coincidents that go to make up the ordinary theatrical plot. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and five simple vows in order the better to ensure the observance of poverty,
and the eschewal of ambition; the Brothers of St. John of God make a vow ..."
4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"There yet remains much in St. Louis to remind one of its village days; and a
stern eschewal of mathematical, angular exactitude is everywhere beheld. ..."
5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"There yet remains much in St. Louis to remind one of its village days; and a
stern eschewal of mathematical, angular exactitude is everywhere beheld. ..."
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