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Definition of Stilted
1. Adjective. Artificially formal. "When people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
Definition of Stilted
1. a. Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation.
Definition of Stilted
1. Adjective. stiff and artificially formal ¹
2. Adjective. pompous ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of a building) Supported by stilts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stilted
1. stilt [v] - See also: stilt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stilted
Literary usage of Stilted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Past in the Present: What is Civilization? by Arthur Mitchell (1881)
"That the one-stilted ... should still be used in our country is remarkable; yet,
as an agricultural implement, it Fig. 68.—Shetland cue-stilted ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"The attention of the jury may be called to the abandonment of an issue stilted
in the pleadings by first stating the original contentions, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... placed one on each It is remarkable that the arch of the apse is о the horseshoe
form, and those of the nave ai very much stilted. ..."
4. The Wine of the Puritans: A Study of Present-day America by Van Wyck Brooks (1908)
"... and turtle-soup—Threadbare—" Recreation from hard work "—stilted sympathies—Derelict
machinery— Two views of Mr Rockefeller—The correct street—Permanent ..."
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