Definition of Slighters

1. slighter [n] - See also: slighter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slighters

sliding window
slidingly
slidings
slidometer
slidometers
slier
sliest
slieve
slieves
sligh
slight
slight care
slight of hand
slighted
slighter
slighters
slightest
slighteth
slightful
slighting
slightingly
slightish
slightly
slightness
slightnesses
slights
slighty
slike
slily
slim

Literary usage of Slighters

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alexander and Rufus: Or, A Series of Dialogues on Church Communion, in Two by John Anderson (1820)
"And would not "our Lord Jesus and his apostles have refused to admit persons to sealing ordinances, who were open opposers, slighters or contemners of any ..."

2. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister by Thomas Boston (1851)
"They are slighters of Christ, who have means of knowledge, and yet know him not; they know him not, because they will not be acquainted with him; Job xxi. ..."

3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1840)
"And such as are not insolent, nor mockers, nor slighters of others in their own disposition. And generally such as are of a contrary disposition to those ..."

4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1840)
"And such as are not insolent, nor mockers, nor slighters of others in their own disposition. And generally such as are of a contrary disposition to those ..."

5. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"Let me, therefore, by these following questions, try whether none of you are slighters of Christ and your own salvation. And follow me, I beseech you, ..."

6. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1833)
"... the observation of the preceeding reports, clearly confirme the Doctrine of the Sabboth, and the practise of prayer : Oh tremble ye Sabboth-slighters, ..."

7. The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise on the Blessed State of the by Richard Baxter (1872)
"... man in bedlam so truly mad as wilful sinners, and unworthy slighters of Christ and glory ! This makes a dying man usually wiser than others, ..."

8. The Book-hunter Etc. by John Hill Burton (1882)
"Romans as introducers of Christianity into Great Britain, 360, 379 —as slighters of history, 360 et seq. Rout upon Rout, by Felix Nixon, Roxburghe Club, 97, ..."

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