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Definition of Troping
1. trope [v] - See also: trope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troping
Literary usage of Troping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1815)
"The Lord Appius hath committed her to ward, and it is thought she shall neither
lie on the knight side, nor in the troping ..."
2. Old English plays [ed. by C. W. Dilke]. by English plays (1815)
"The Lord Appius,hath committed her to ward, and it is thought sh.e shall neither
lie on the knight side, nor in the troping ward "I'; for if he may have his ..."
3. The Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, 1775-1783 by Samuel Curwen (1864)
"Among the wearing apparel inventoried, are a silver-laced cloth coat, a velvet
ditto, a satin waistcoat embroidered with gold, a troping scarf and silver ..."
4. Handbook to Christian and Ecclesiastical Rome by Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker, Hope Malleson (1897)
"For example, the troping of the Christmas epistle commences thus : Boene genz
por qui suavement Diex de char vestir se ..."
5. New English Canaan by Thomas Morton (2000)
"... another is something like 'cunningly intelligent' or even 'slippery and
deceitful'...and a third is 'much given to troping, to the use of tropes'" ..."
6. Sentiments Concerning the Coming and Kingdom of Christ: Collec from the by Joshua Spalding (1841)
"... but know of but one way of successfully opposing our doctrine of the millennium,
that is, the way of troping and allegorizing the Scriptures ; by which, ..."
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