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Definition of Trounces
1. trounce [v] - See also: trounce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trounces
Literary usage of Trounces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1896)
"Nor does the author leave us entirely to deal with our own consciences in this
respect; with the ardor of a true patriot he trounces us with justifiable ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... formerly known as " the excellently learned," places him across his paternal
knee, and trounces him in the following fashion : "There is no feat of ..."
3. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"Once, while cracking a crib, he cares for a strangling baby; and again he trounces
the Frenchman who has insulted a slavey. The slavey is Alice, ..."
4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1882)
"For the god also must show himself useful to this utilitarian spirit; and so the
Chinaman trounces his gods when they fail to answer bis paper prayers, ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1896)
"... with the ardour of a true patriot he trounces us with justifiable severity
for both our political and historical neglect of 1 A HISTORY or NEWFOUNDLAND ..."
6. The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, John Leech (1864)
"As far as it is possible to collect the meaning of the epistle to which we have
referred, it trounces the Duke of York in a style of truly female ..."
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