Lexicographical Neighbors of Pratings
Literary usage of Pratings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... his desire must be decided in distinction -from the ravings of a madman, the
silly pratings of an idiot, childish whims of imbecility, or the excited ..."
2. Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe by Martin Luther (1823)
"... so utterly brought to nothing that no memory of them is left. Cato calls such
pettifoggers, and allows all their pratings to pass by unnoticed: whereas ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"... scurrilous pamphlet entitled ' New Preachers, New,' we nave mention of ' the
last tumult in Fleet Street, raised by the disorderly preachment, pratings, ..."
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