Lexicographical Neighbors of Slightnesses
Literary usage of Slightnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are by John Walker (1822)
"... between speaking and talking : the one will admit of many contractions and
slightnesses in pronunciation, which would be wholly inexcusable in the other ..."
2. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and by John Walker (1801)
"... or oratorical speaking; or, in other words, between speaking and talking: the
one will admit of many contractions and slightnesses in pronunciation, ..."
3. A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and by John Walker (1823)
"... between speaking and talking: the one will admit of many contractions and
slightnesses in pronunciation, which would be wholly inexcusable in the other. ..."
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