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Definition of Detractors
1. detractor [n] - See also: detractor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detractors
Literary usage of Detractors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine (1909)
"CHAPTER XXVIII Against the tongues of detractors " MY Son, take it not sadly to
heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to ..."
2. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF Detractors. I SHALL now proceed to enumerate the
different classes of detractors. Detractors may be divided under the following ..."
3. The Imitation of Christ: Four Books by Thomas (1877)
"Against the tongues of detractors. "Mv Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any
think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XXVIII Against the tongues of detractors " MY Son, take it not sadly to
heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"A Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors. By VV. S. LANDOR. London :
Saunders and Otley. 1836. Mt. LANDOR, in this production, levels his reproof ..."
6. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"Archbishop Lanfranc to Remigius Bishop of Dorchester : that the King heeds not
the detractors of the Bishop. ..."
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