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Definition of Nidering
1. a. Infamous; dastardly.
Definition of Nidering
1. Adjective. (obsolete) infamous; dastardly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nidering
1. a coward [n -S] - See also: coward
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nidering
Literary usage of Nidering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A View of Society in Europe in Its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement; Or by Gilbert Stuart (1792)
"... neglected to repair to him mould be accounted nidering, ... and nidering, are
words at this day well known in ..."
2. Down the River, Or Practical Lessons Under the Code Duello by George W. Hooper, John Lyde Wilson (1874)
"nidering.'—It is now a matter of the utmost importance to that large and respectable
... Here is what that good old man tells us about it: "' nidering, a. ..."
3. Ivanhoe by Walter Scott (1904)
"nidering. "There was nothing accounted so ignominious among the Saxons as to
merit this disgraceful epithet. Even William the Conqueror, hated as he was by ..."
4. William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England: From the Earliest by William, John Allen Giles (1847)
"... nidering,"* which implies "abandoned." The English who thought nothing more
disgraceful than to be stigmatised by such an appellation, flocked in troops ..."
5. Ivanhoe: A Romance / [Sir Walter Scott] by Walter Scott (1821)
"... a Saxon would have been held nidering,* (the most emphatic term for abject
worthlessness,) who should, in his own hall, and while his own wine-cup ..."
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