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Definition of Pelting
1. Noun. Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive. "A pelting of insults"
Generic synonyms: Chronological Sequence, Chronological Succession, Sequence, Succession, Successiveness
Derivative terms: Pelt
Definition of Pelting
1. a. Mean; paltry.
Definition of Pelting
1. Verb. (present participle of pelt) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pelting
1. pelt [v] - See also: pelt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelting
Literary usage of Pelting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"pelting, a. A very common epithet, with our old writers, to signify paltry, or
contemptible. Dr. Johnson supposed it a corruption of petty, but Mr. Todd has ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... nor give regard Unto the voice and warnings of high heaven ; Therefore their
waxing rivers break their bounds; And every pelting stream upon the hills ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Children, says one of the I"r"f»> their heads, they would be pelting them down
you never consider, that though this may be play to you, 'tis death to us. ..."
4. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"... for a ride home at nine o'clock, through a pelting, driving snow storm... .
HENRY ADAMS TO CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR. London, April 23,1863 TROUBLED ..."
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