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Definition of Slighter
1. n. One who slights.
Definition of Slighter
1. Adjective. (comparative of slight lang=English POS=adjective) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slighter
1. one that slights [n -S] - See also: slights
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slighter
Literary usage of Slighter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1874)
"The philosophical and, in many ways, original lecture of Professor Jürgensen, of
Tübingen, on the slighter forms of typhoid (Volkmann's Sammlung Klinischer ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"The first presented a rough surface ; the other was much smoother, and covered
with slighter ramifications, not unlike those visible in water in the state ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1898)
"slighter cases are : (a) thick soles with well-fitting insteps, and roomy around
the heads of the metatarsals ; (/>) a thickening of the sole of at least ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. by Edward Gibbon (1821)
"A slighter provocation inflamed the more irascible temper of their descendants:
a new spirit had arisen of religious chivalry and Papal dominion: a nerve ..."
5. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"more thinner, slighter, and meaner than heretofore they have been, to the great
de- i.4'it and hurt of all that are to use the same about the sails and ..."
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