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Definition of Poltrooneries
1. poltroonery [n] - See also: poltroonery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poltrooneries
Literary usage of Poltrooneries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) (1885)
"... though he "all but died of terror," and, at the cardinal's demand, he soon
brought all those poltrooneries written out in the duke of Orleans' own hand. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1865)
"... and impious poltrooneries ' at home, the punctual payment abroad of subsidies
which under the reign of Newcastle had been promised and not paid at all, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"Greatly contemptuous of Newcastle and the Pla"titudes and poltrooneries; and
still a good deal in the Opposition strain, — and nut always tempering the wind ..."
4. Modern Studies by Oliver Elton (1907)
"The reigning vices and poltrooneries are superseded by justice and truth. This new
earth Bruno's ironic and ..."
5. United States: From the Landing of Columbus to the Signing of the Peace by Julian Hawthorne (1898)
"... and, in spite of the entreaties of Macdowell, marched back to "Washington.
Such are the incredible poltrooneries occasionally to be seen in war. ..."
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