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Definition of Tritely
1. Adverb. In a trite manner. "Tritely expressed emotions"
Definition of Tritely
1. Adverb. In a trite manner. ¹
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Definition of Tritely
1. trite [adv] - See also: trite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tritely
Literary usage of Tritely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches by John Roland Phillips (1874)
"... of which, as Sir Edward Walker tritely remarks, "even had it been lost it
could not have proved worse than their being afterwards both in the West, ..."
2. Homœopathy in its relation to the diseases of women by Thomas Skinner (1876)
"the womb, as it is tritely styled, for ulceration of the os or cervix; and without
the aid of the vaginal speculum, except as a means of aiding diagnosis, ..."
3. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland (1867)
"I have altered sonderliche to tritely, to preserve the alliteration, although MS.
... Nevertheless, I have ventured to write tritely here, for the reason ..."
4. Critical Essays of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1725 by Willard Higley Durham (1915)
"It is advice to critics, in matter now tritely right, now tritely wrong; but in
manner brilliant, so brilliant that it makes an indelible impression on ..."
5. Essays Philological and Critical: Selected from the Papers by James Hadley (1873)
"Of the second words in these pairs, the last three, tritely, almighty, and lady,
come to us from the Anglo-Saxon. They still have in the last syllable the ..."
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