Lexicographical Neighbors of Explicably
Literary usage of Explicably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Victorian Prose Masters: Thackeray--Carlyle--George Eliot--Matthew Arnold by William Crary Brownell (1901)
"And they and others like them are beautiful, as prose poetry is not, for the very
reason that they are so explicably founded in fitness. ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1875)
"and not very explicably, succeeded by conscientious repentance ; and the remaining
personages are more or less convent onal. What enchains our admiration in ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1874)
"... still, when we see how iu • explicably it has originated, how abundant it has
become within a few years, and what a strong hold it has taken of the ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"Much that he says even in the brief space of six or eight pages which he allots
to Crabbe is unjust; much is explicably, and not too creditably, unjust. ..."
5. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1890)
"... Much that he says even in the brief space of six or eight pages which he allots
to Crabbe is unjust; much is explicably, and not too creditably, unjust. ..."
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