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Definition of Truckled
1. truckle [v] - See also: truckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truckled
Literary usage of Truckled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Magazine, and American Register by Charles Brockden Brown (1804)
"... a Parisian ; at another, a London fashion : and have truckled to the humours,
now of a precise enthusiast, and now of a smart freethinker. ..."
2. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"These humbled Venetians, who truckled to slavery without an effort to resist the
conqueror, would have shed their blood to maintain the colour of a stick. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ...: With Original Anecdotes of by Lucy Hutchinson, John Hutchinson (1846)
"... truckled under them, but not many. Meanwhile they and their soldiers could no
way palliate their rebellion, but by making false criminations of the ..."
4. The Philosophy of Spirit by John Snaith (1914)
"I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, ... The word ' truckled '
revealed the peculiar moral working of Darwin's mind. ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"For which so many a legal cuckold Has been run down in courts, and truckled. lit.
It is no less requisite to maintain a truck in moral offices, ..."
6. Colloquia Peripatetica: Deep-sea Soundings : Being Notes of Conversations by William Angus Knight (1879)
"Buchanan would have got great advancement in the Church, had he only truckled to
them. What a contrast to Erasmus, his illustrious brother in scholarship. ..."
7. The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature by James Silk Buckingham (1828)
"The Governor rather truckled to them, and undertook to execute the tyrannous
suggestions which they extra-judicially communicated to him! ..."
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