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Definition of Naeves
1. naeve [n] - See also: naeve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naeves
Literary usage of Naeves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... or crooked nose, bad eyes, prominent veins, concavities about the eyes,
wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, naeves, inequalities, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"So many spots, like naeves, our Venus soil ? One jewel set off with so many a foil ?
Blisters with pride swelled, which through his flesh did sprout Like ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... or crooked nose, bad eyes, prominent veins, concavities about the eyes,
wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, naeves, inequalities, ..."
4. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"Besides these outward naeves or open faults, errors, there be many inward
infirmities, secret, some private (which I will omit), and some more common to the ..."
5. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... 'Spots, like naeves', Dryden, Death of Lord Hastings, 55. L. naevus, a mole,
or mark on the body. nake, to bare, unsheathe a sword; 'Nake your swords', ..."
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