Lexicographical Neighbors of Moroser
Literary usage of Moroser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1871)
"valion, an acknowledged character of virtue and abilities;" but his austere temper
insensibly degenerated into moroser.ess and cruelty; and the imperfect ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... regarded the growing licence of Cavalier society, its production is no less
clearly a repudiation of the doctrines of Prynne and the moroser Puritans, ..."
3. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1808)
"... sanguine, and impassioned, but these are the graces of his age, and, who, but
the moroser powers will carp at the ro- ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"... but the older and moroser personages of the sky — Saturn, Neptune, Fate, and
the like, or Pluto and his sad companions of Hades, affected the dance. ..."
5. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"... against their will, as it would ivery means by which they could be removed
rom one State into another. Wo see, moroser, that, upon the importation only, ..."
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