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Definition of Primrose path
1. Noun. A life of ease and pleasure.
Definition of Primrose path
1. Noun. An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation. ¹
2. Noun. A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error. ¹
3. Noun. The life of prostitution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Primrose Path
Literary usage of Primrose path
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... LXXVIII THE primrose path BUT we are losing sight of more important things.
From the very beginning Mark Twain's home meant always more to him than his ..."
2. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... LXXVIII THE primrose path BUT we are losing sight of more important things.
From the very beginning Mark Twain's home meant always more to him than his ..."
3. Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography by Wilfrid Meynell (1903)
"... the real obstacles which he himself, hardly witting what he did, had laid
across his own primrose path. These were set forth with a precision which I, ..."
4. Experience: A Morality Play of Today by George Vere Hobart (1915)
"... EPISODE IN THE primrose path DESCRIPTION : A golden Cabaret in that region
known as the Haunts of Pleasure. Small tables on both sides at which men and ..."
5. The Education of the Heart by William Lonsdale Watkinson (1904)
"VIII THE primrose path The path of the righteous is as the shining light, ...
IT may seem strange to identify the primrose path with the course of Christian ..."
6. The Pillar of Fire: A Profane Baccalaureate by Seymour Deming (1915)
"... stoutly determined to preserve her own honor, entertained no scruples against
accepting money earned by her friend Elfie on the primrose path. ..."
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