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Definition of Slightest
1. slight [adj] - See also: slight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slightest
Literary usage of Slightest
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)
"She intelligently prepared everything that was needed for the dressings, assisted
him in taking his medicine or other liquids, attended to his slightest ..."
2. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"I would not have offered the slightest resistance; on the contrary, I would have
assisted them. Lord of Heaven and Earth! one day of my life for one happy ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"This does very well if the solution is reduced in the cold, but with hot solutions
the slightest cooling causes sodium bicarbonate solution from the valve ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(47; betrayed a spirit of discontent and disaffection, that waited only for the
slightest occasion to break out on every side into a general rebellion. ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"I do not wish to insist upon the correctness of this derivation of the word gat/,
for I have not the slightest authority for it ; I merely maintain that it ..."
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