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Definition of Spinsterly
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinsterly
Literary usage of Spinsterly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"And it is this man, so highly charged with nervous and muscular energy, who has
become the symbol for all that is amiable, superficial, and spinsterly in ..."
2. The Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger (1904)
"I feel most thankful for the spinsterly attentions of your sister. Thank the
kind " knitter in the sun !" What nonsense seems verse, when one is seriously ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Miss D has taken inflammation in the foot —prudent and spinsterly. But she treats
me as if it had been at the bosom, and makes it a pretext for not coming. ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"A cousin nearer her age, yet sufficiently older to have gained the spinsterly
point of view, was next to come. "Well, Frances," she said, with tears in her ..."
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