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Definition of Ruder
1. rude [adj] - See also: rude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruder
Literary usage of Ruder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"BY WE ruder Received February 5. 1912. Since the production of tungsten and
molybdenum metals in a malleable and ductile form,2 various interesting ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And O, forget its ruder part ! The vacant purse shall be my share, Which in my
barret-cap I '11 bear, Perchance, in jeopardy of war, Where gayer crests may ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Among the many vices of this younger Verus, he possessed one virtue ; a dutiful
reverence for his wiser colleague, to whom he willingly abandoned the ruder ..."
4. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"So it has happened that such of these brooches as continued to be made in recent
times became ruder and ruder, ..."
5. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"speak in the sublimely simple utterance of ruder times. What will Europe think
of this utterance of the rude ruler, of whom they have nourished so lofty a ..."
6. On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford by Matthew Arnold (1861)
"Certainly his poetry has all the energy and power of the poetry of our ruder
climates ; but it has, besides, the pure lines of an Ionian horizon, ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... Spencer) upon Shamanism, and the still ruder Fetichism. The lowest religions
are characterized by their containing the greatest Magic has been analyzed. ..."
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