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Definition of Tritest
1. trite [adj] - See also: trite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tritest
Literary usage of Tritest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Renascence of the English Drama: Essays, Lectures, and Fragments by Henry Arthur Jones (1895)
"That is, the greatest dramas teach, and concern themselves about, the greatest
and tritest and most central truths. But beyond this purpose to teach which ..."
2. Exercises in German Syntax and Composition for Advanced Students by Marian Parker Whitney, Lilian Luise Stroebe (1910)
"That is, the greatest dramas teach, and concern themselves about, the greatest
and tritest and most central truths. But beyond this purpose to teach, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... of the tritest he .... while other forms appear to be generically Identical
with tritest sad ..."
4. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy: And Other Essays by William James (1899)
"It is one of the tritest of truisms that human intelligences of a simple order
are very literal. They are slaves of habit, doing what they have been taught ..."
5. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy: And Other Essays by William James (1896)
"It is one of the tritest of truisms that human intelligences of a simple order
are very literal. They are slaves of habit, doing what they have been taught ..."
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