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Definition of Schoolmasterly
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schoolmasterly
Literary usage of Schoolmasterly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1866)
"He had acquired the art of imparting knowledge under the stimulus of a love of
knowledge in his spirit, and had learned to do schoolmasterly work in a ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... a somewhat schoolmasterly interest in English grammar and lexicography, and
an elegant trifling with the modern and the Oriental languages. ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"... siasm for the race was smothered by a schoolmasterly, expository spirit.
A popular picture with an ambiguous title, In Full Cry, was given as a subject ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... a great deal of not «л much masterly as schoolmasterly discussion He that bv
intellectual exaltation thus tow- over Greek, and weak digression—no»- urn ..."
5. Dramatic Opinions and Essays: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... "Look, if my gentle love be not raised up— I'll make thee an example," becomes
a ludicrously schoolmasterly "I'll make thee an example," twice repeated. ..."
6. Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters: A Selection from His by Francesco Petrarca (1898)
"... and the love of quiet that should go with your philosophic professions, and
abstention from 1 This last sentence, with its schoolmasterly tone, ..."
7. Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"... if my gentle love be not raised up — I '11 make thee an example," becomes a
ludicrously schoolmasterly " 11l make thee an example," twice repeated. ..."
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