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Definition of Showered
1. shower [v] - See also: shower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Showered
Literary usage of Showered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"Bouquets—then an extraordinary manifestation of approval—were showered upon the
triumphant singer. In her subsequent visits to Paris, 1831 and 1832, ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"At every period of his life queens, duchesses, and countesses have showered on
him their regard. The Duke of Dorset, recently sent ambassador to France ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... that the terrestrial matter which is showered down ;ilong with rain enlarges
fhe bulk of the earth, and that it will in ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This governor made him Court painter and showered various commissions upon him,
among them the decorations of a shooting box which the received back into ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Archduke husband's life, but she insisted upon the boy s educa- and showered
various commissions upon him, among received back into the Catholic Church, ..."
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