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Definition of Swerved
1. swerve [v] - See also: swerve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swerved
Literary usage of Swerved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... that he never swerved a tittle. He had so entire a resignation of himself to
the king, that he abhorred all artifices to shelter himself from the ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Together with Bessarion he steadfastly worked for the union, and never swerved
afterwards in his acceptance of it. His Life, &s first written in 1265 by ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... swerved from the views set forth in the Loci Communes; but he regarded the
surrender of more perfect for lesa perfect forms of truth or of expression as ..."
4. Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career by Charles Grenfill Washburn (1916)
"To be sure that you are not swerved in your conscientious decisions by any thought
of your own advantage is the great thing, the only thing if you would be ..."
5. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"... nor, being tempted and threatened by paymaster and reviewer, swerved from the
righteousness and high aims of his inexorable genius. ..."
6. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... that he never swerved a tittle. He had so entire a resignation of himself to
the king, that he abhorred all artifices to shelter himself from the ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Together with Bessarion he steadfastly worked for the union, and never swerved
afterwards in his acceptance of it. His Life, &s first written in 1265 by ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... swerved from the views set forth in the Loci Communes; but he regarded the
surrender of more perfect for lesa perfect forms of truth or of expression as ..."
9. Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career by Charles Grenfill Washburn (1916)
"To be sure that you are not swerved in your conscientious decisions by any thought
of your own advantage is the great thing, the only thing if you would be ..."
10. The Greek Christian Poets and the English Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1863)
"... nor, being tempted and threatened by paymaster and reviewer, swerved from the
righteousness and high aims of his inexorable genius. ..."
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