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Definition of Jeerers
1. jeerer [n] - See also: jeerer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jeerers
Literary usage of Jeerers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"He spoke so fairly and with such serious bearing that he silenced the jeerers,
and almost spoiled the frolic for the rest of ..."
2. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... her ladies-in-waiting, and Wax, her chambermaid; and these are provided with
a foil in a group of " jeerers," among them Almanac, doctor of physics, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"Only a very conceited kind of intellectual incapables laugh at " the balance of
power," and the jeerers do not so mightily abound with us as they did in the ..."
4. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"... her ladies-in-waiting, and Wax, her chambermaid; and these are provided with
a foil in a group of " jeerers," among them Almanac, doctor of physics, ..."
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