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Definition of Rankest
1. rank [adj] - See also: rank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rankest
Literary usage of Rankest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Richard Cumberland by Richard Cumberland (1807)
"... trace him home, " You'll find his house the school of vice and last, *' The
foulest sink of Epicurus' sty, " And him the rankest swine of all the herd. ..."
2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"And when we recollect that these are qualities gratuitously assigned to him by
the novelist, and that a man may be the rankest of materialists and yet most ..."
3. Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages, Before, and After by John Riddell (1842)
"Here there is adoption of a former illusion that has been already alluded to,
and which can never be sufficiently stigmatized—the rankest error and ..."
4. Orations, Addresses and Club Essays by George A. Sanders (1895)
"Their theologies a curious mixture of most devout and true worship and the rankest
atheism and skepticism, while their literature is by many believed to be ..."
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