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Definition of Godfathered
1. godfather [v] - See also: godfather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Godfathered
Literary usage of Godfathered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... with the probabilities of the case, but it is, to use the word which Mr.
Matthew Arnold godfathered in English, " facultative," it can be taken or left; ..."
2. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"It was as stupid, as devilish, as basely born as godfathered. It is an exploded
forgery, and the explosion leaves dead and' torn upon the field the author ..."
3. Biographical and Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott (1903)
"should be included ten pounds for a pair of unfortunate Cherokee Lovers, sent
all the way from our own happy land in order to be godfathered by Sir Walter ..."
4. The Exemplary Theatre by Harley Granville-Barker (1922)
"But that was to have contented us if only the millionaire would have fathered
the already well godfathered scheme. And Shaw's criticism, if pertinent, ..."
5. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1869)
"That colony has cost the nation very great sums of money; whereas the colonies
which have had the fortune of not being godfathered by the Board of Trade ..."
6. The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1892)
"That colony has cost the nation very great sums of money ; whereas the colonies
which have had the fortune of not being godfathered by the board of trade ..."
7. Memoirs by Mark Pattison (1885)
"Belfield godfathered me, introduced me into his set, took me under his wing, and
was of infinite use to me, in those ways in which a well-established senior ..."
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