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Definition of Exactingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exactingly
Literary usage of Exactingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"... personal career down to its painful close, and that reflect disagreeably enough
on the character of the patronage exactingly extended to him by the head ..."
2. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"... and his premature authority; the shrill outcry of the eldest daughter, a
coarse, plain-looking girl, with " a plump, high-fed face," exactingly jealous, ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... yet partiality has no share in my judgment: on the contrary, the stronger my
affection for him, the more exactingly I weigh his merit. ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"... the very essence of his system and give up all claim to speculative philosophy.
The latter exactingly demands a survey of the movement as a whole, ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"... apprehension that some emotion she has expressed may not have been absolutely
true to herself after all, and she seeks yet more exactingly to strip all ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... exactingly particular in the matter of dates in this story—a rosy-cheeked old
gentleman sat in his library, toasting his toes. ..."
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