Lexicographical Neighbors of Morosities
Literary usage of Morosities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... serotinous, Hard to be pleas'd, and parsimonious ; But all those errours from
our manners rise, Not from our years; yet some morosities We must expect, ..."
2. The whole works of ... Jeremy Taylor, with a life of the author and a by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1856)
"... and then blot out, all peevish dispositions and morosities, all disturbances
and unevenness of spirit or of habit, that may hinder us in our duty. ..."
3. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes : Authors by Samuel Austin Allibone (1896)
"Some morosities We most expect, since jealousy belongs To age, of scorn, and
tender sense of wrongs. SIR J. DENHAM. The rage of jealousy then fired his soul ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Edmund Waller, John Denham, George Gilfillan (1857)
"... and parsimonious; But all those errors from our manners rise, Not from our
years; yet some morosities C7O We must expect, since jealousy belongs To age, ..."
5. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow (1830)
"... no supercilious morosities, no frivolous ostentations of seemingly high, but
really fruitless performances; nothing that might deter a timorous, ..."
6. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow, William Whewell (1859)
"... no supercilious morosities, no frivolous ostentations of seemingly high, but
really fruitless performances; nothing that might deter a timorous, ..."
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