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Definition of Firmest
1. firm [adj] - See also: firm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firmest
Literary usage of Firmest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"To divert the Praetorian bands from these dangerous reflections, the firmest and
best established princes were obliged to mix blandishments with commands, ..."
2. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... earl's period of rule had expired, those who had pretended to be his firmest
friends and hacl followed his fortunes, now became his most bitter enemies. ..."
3. Biographical Memoirs of the Illustrious General George Washington, Late by John Corry (1810)
"these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.—The mere politician,
equally with the pious roan, ought to respect and to cherish them. ..."
4. Burke: Select Works by Edmund Burke (1885)
"... than that I think it laid deep in your truest interests; and that, by limiting
the exercise, it fixes, on the firmest foundations, a real, consistent, ..."
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