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Definition of Merest
1. mere [adj] - See also: mere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Merest
Literary usage of Merest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1893)
"... through the window had photographed on his brain a picture of terrible
significance to him. For the merest point of time his eyes had rested upon Kirk ..."
2. 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)
"... and for much of Babylonian history during the period of Assyrian supremacy.
ent imperfect knowledge it can only be the merest suggestion. ..."
3. The Principal Ecclesiastical Judgments Delivered in the Court of Arches 1867 by Sir Robert Phillimore (1876)
"merest. A clergyman convicted of simony and another offence—Sentence : deprivation
of his living, coupled with prohibition to discharge all clerical ..."
4. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"—and all believe it to be the merest bravado and unmitigated humbug. Every preparation
will be made by the Confederate States Government for the most ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"Rothwell was sufficient to induce the court to treat the word issue as a word of
purchase, as also the circumstances which in merest v. ..."
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