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Definition of Turnon
1. something that arouses interest [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnon
Literary usage of Turnon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1901)
"turnon answered that they could not deny the friendship shown by England and the
... turnon said that if the men offended that was no reason to detain the ..."
2. State Papers by Great Britain Record Commission (1849)
"And what tyme the said Cardinale turnon declared this last parte unto the ...
promised to the Cardinales turnon and Gramont, that nothing of moment shuld be ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of John Calvin by Elijah Waterman, Jean Calvin (1813)
"This had been formed after the model of the Genevese Church, a circumstance by
no means in their favour with turnon and the influential Papists at court. ..."
4. Fox's Book of Martyrs: The Acts and Monuments of the Church by John Foxe, John Cumming (1844)
"But the bishop of turnon, a man both learned and eloquent, speaking for him and
his fellows, said, that he heard how that they were evil spoken of amongst ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... with a commanding ridge running south, cut by a sunken road (the "Bloody Lane")
running e pike. east from the turnOn the morning of the 17th Fitzhugh ..."
6. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1827)
"... making an artificial road from the borough ot Mercer, in the county of Mercer,
to the line of the state ot Ohio, in a direction to the centre of turnon, ..."
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