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Definition of Heaviest
1. heavy [adj] - See also: heavy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaviest
Literary usage of Heaviest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"... armed with the heaviest artillery and protected by thick iron scarps, supplemented
by earthen batteries and a well- planned system of torpedo defense. ..."
2. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"heaviest Blow Yet Dealt the Secession Cause.—General McPherson Receives the Formal
Surrender.—Thirty-seven Thousand Prisoners, Fifteen Generals, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"During the previous year five 14-inch guns were manufactured, to supersede some
of the 12-inch guns, hitherto the heaviest of our coast artillery, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Philippine Islands, however, suffered the heaviest losses, during the
disturbances of 1896. Hence the Augustinian Order of to-day has only a tenth of ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"Her parole was now her heaviest burden, for she had heard that Lafayette was to
be sent to Spandau; so in spite of the breach of confidence on ..."
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