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Definition of Rumoured
1. rumour [v] - See also: rumour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumoured
Literary usage of Rumoured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Louise locked herself up; it was even rumoured that she had gone mad. Meanwhile,
Frederick was unable to hide his dejection. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"It was rumoured that overdoses from an ' antimonial cup ' from Massachusetts
hastened his end (Collections of Ufas*. Hist. So?. 4th ser. vol. vi. p. 125). ..."
3. Paris in 1789-94: Farewell Letters of Victims of the Guillotine by John Goldworth Alger (1902)
"... and rumoured Revolution — Popular Meetings — Street Groups and Talk ...
Wedding Feasts — Robespierre's Illness and rumoured Arrest—Gambling—Guillotine ..."
4. My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell (1863)
"... an attack on Washington—Skirmishing—Anonymous letters—General Halleck —General
M'Clellan and the Sabbath—rumoured death of Jefferson Davis—Spread of my ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"We have heard it rumoured, that several gentlemen have been deprived of lucrative
official situations, in consequence of their being suspected of favouring ..."
6. The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by Walter Scott (1829)
"... of Paris—Reflections—rumoured Conspiracies—National Guard Gardes de Corps—Gens
d'Armes—Mareschal McDonald—Number of Foreign Troops—Austrian! ..."
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