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Definition of Sweet wormwood
1. Noun. Wormwood of southeastern Europe to Iran.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Wormwood
Literary usage of Sweet wormwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samuel Harris (1883)
"... it is sweet. Wormwood is not bitter because it is disagreeable ; it is
disagreeable because it is bitter. The sun is not warm because it is agreeable ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"He straight replied: " To drink up the sweet wormwood of affliction I have been
brought thus early, by the tears Stream'd down my Nella's5 cheeks. ..."
3. The Philosophical Basis of Theism: An Examination of the Personality of Man by Samuel Harris (1883)
"... it is sweet. Wormwood is not bitter because it is disagreeable ; it is
disagreeable because it is bitter. The sun is not warm because it is agreeable ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"He straight replied: " To drink up the sweet wormwood of affliction I have been
brought thus early, by the tears Stream'd down my Nella's5 cheeks. ..."
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