Lexicographical Neighbors of Rifeness
Literary usage of Rifeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1886)
"... that this Year there was like by such operations to be greater offence by
reason of the rifeness of the small Pox.tho' indeed last Year the Persons ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1847)
"... recently assigned three reasons for not visiting the United States : ' First,
the rifeness of our mob spirit, which might endanger his life; secondly, ..."
3. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... rlfe'lè. ad. abundantly rifeness, rife'nes. s. prevalence Rifle, ri'fl.
va to rob, plunder Rifler, rl'fl-uv. s. robber, plunderer H ¡ft, ..."
4. France by John Edward Courtnenay Bodley (1898)
"... that there was a renaissance of feeling in favour of the soldier of the Revolution.
The rifeness of parliamentary anarchy and scandal, not unlike that ..."
5. Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and by Thomas Wright (1846)
"... these popular execrations, till their rifeness produced an urgency to rid the
church of this perplexing mode of stigmatising the conduct of its members. ..."
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