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Definition of Limpest
1. limp [adj] - See also: limp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limpest
Literary usage of Limpest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1884)
"... the briefest possible terms, printed on the thinnest of papers, and bound in
the limpest of cloths, so as to go in any pocket. We can warmly commend it. ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"Sir James might not have originated this estimate; but a kind Providence furnishes
the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"The flowing lines of her tall figure made the limpest dress look graceful, and
her old frayed black silk seemed to repose on her bust and limbs with a ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"The flowing lines of her tall figure made the limpest dress look graceful, and
her old frayed black silk seemed to repose on her bust and limbs with a ..."
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