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Definition of Gauntest
1. gaunt [adj] - See also: gaunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gauntest
Literary usage of Gauntest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced by John Bartlett (1906)
"To the gauntest of Cumberland. Slama 12. Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable
Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born. To Delia. Sonnet SI. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"1729 ; Autobiography of Mary, gauntest of Warwick, p. 27). The second son, Charles
Rich, married Mary Boyle, daughter of the first earl of Cork, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During ...by Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Belt by Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Robert Belt (1820)
"... charged on the estate without taking an assignment, he shall be a creditor
for the sums paid, which shall be raised for his administratrix (gauntest of ..."
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