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Definition of Fiercest
1. fierce [adj] - See also: fierce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiercest
Literary usage of Fiercest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"But Arundel continued the fiercest of the king's enemies. In the parliament of
February 1388 he was one of the five lords who solemnly renewed the appeal ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The decree, ev pressed in the fiercest language of malice and revenge, was
communicated to the emperor and the catholic church ; and the bishops immediately ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... is a drama, which facts have made highly sensational, of the fiercest struggle
against temporal and spiritual despotism that, within the same space of ..."
4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"resist the fiercest charges of cavalry had been fully shown in the Crusades, was
it a slight proof of Edward's sagacity to recur to that almost forgotten ..."
5. Southern Literary Messenger (1850)
"... 'Mid the freshness of heaven's own dew ; He has bathed in the sun's fiercest
splendor, He has jov'd in its beauty and flame ¡ To me, from my youth, ..."
6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and importunity in asking would prevail with his majesty to consent, wished
themselves fairly unentangled: and I have heard many of the fiercest ..."
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