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Definition of Receded
1. recede [v] - See also: recede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Receded
Literary usage of Receded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A (1841)
"... we presume that it will appear we have not receded from our OTJ proposals in
any particular. 2. As to the inconsistency mentioned in the second article, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"In like manner we can say that the images of memory often get obscured, distorted,
and otherwise altered when they have receded into the dim distance, ..."
3. Travels in North America in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations by Charles Lyell (1845)
"... the Falls haee receded from Queenston to their present Site.—Geographical
Features of llie Region. ..."
4. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"Both parties in the concordat at Worms receded from so much of their pretensions,
that we might almost hesitate to determine which is to be considered as ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"On the instant, an intense brightness glowed around me, from which an orb of
fiery red slowly ascended, gradually lessening in size as it receded, ..."
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