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Definition of Lost cause
1. Noun. A defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable.
Definition of Lost cause
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A cause, attempt, or effort that is hopeless or futile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lost Cause
Literary usage of Lost cause
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"THE CHEVALIER OF THE lost cause From 'A Rebel's Recollections." Copyright by GP
Putnam's Sons. By permission of the publishers. IN the great dining-hall of ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"THE lost cause. SEVERE criticism is sometimes leveled against Northern men for
keeping alive the issues of the War of the Rebellion. ..."
3. Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 by Guy Stanton Ford (1922)
"CHAPTER X THE lost cause For Stein there was in the next two years, 1813-15, an
unstinted measure of planning and laboring and hoping. ..."
4. A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration, 1865-1868 by John Townsend Trowbridge (1868)
"The most Noisy Supporters of the lost cause.—The Effect of .President Johnson's
Course in stimulating this Hostility. — Review of his Course so far as it ..."
5. Through Cities and Prairie Lands: Sketches of an American Tour by Duffus Hardy (1881)
"... Brigands' Exploit—Picturesque Population—Mississippi River—Washington—The
Capitol—Public Buildings—Society—A Monument to a lost cause—Mount Vemon. ..."
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