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Definition of Stript
1. strip [v] - See also: strip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stript
Literary usage of Stript
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"From the introduction to his Abuses stript and Whipt we find that inclination
took him to Oxford in his fifteenth year, where, according to Wood, ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... or pine, or die, We shall have bliss eternally.* ART. CXL. Abuses stript and
Whipt: or Saty- rical Essays in Two Books. By George Wither. ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1880)
"[From Abuse: stript and Whip!.] This in defence of poesie to say I am compelled
because that of this day Weakness and ignorance have wronged it sore; ..."
4. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... that some Trunks, which had the most valuable Decemb- Things in them, were
found broke open, and stript. The Truth of which might in Time be discovered. ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1883)
"[From Abuses stript and Whip!.] This in defence of poesie to say I am compelled
because that of this day Weakness and ignorance have wronged it sore; ..."
6. 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) (1816)
"Change in the Ministry.— Opening of the Chamber*.— The Museum of the Louvre stript
of the fruiti of conquest.— Letter to the King l*y the late Ministers. ..."
7. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"... in the spirit of them that came witn ' Judas, with swords and staves from the
chief priests against Christ: ' stript them all in your watches, ..."
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