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Definition of Ridicules
1. ridicule [v] - See also: ridicule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ridicules
Literary usage of Ridicules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Molière: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor (1906)
"... VII LES PRECIEUSES ridicules UNTIL the eventful afternoon when Les Precieuses
ridicules was produced at the Hotel du Petit Bourbon, the term precieuse ..."
2. The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 by Moses Coit Tyler (1897)
"... in a letter to a Noble Lord," September, 1765—The controversial method of this
pamphlet—Otis ridicules the doctrine of virtual representation—Scoffs at ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"THE SHAM MARQUIS AND THE AFFECTED LADIES From 'Les Precieuses ridicules ' [The
scene is the drawing-room of the provincial but ambitious ladies Mademoiselle ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1801)
"... given to him by Aristophanes, when he ridicules him in the Frogs. Neither he,
nor Euripides, nor Plautus, say one word from which we may infer that ..."
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