Definition of Triflings

1. trifling [n] - See also: trifling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Triflings

triflation
triflavin
trifle away
trifle with
trifled
trifler
triflers
trifles
triflic
triflic acid
triflimide
trifling
triflingly
triflingness
triflings
triflorous
trifluctuation
trifluoperazine
trifluoperazine hydrochloride
trifluoperazines
trifluoracetic
trifluoramine
trifluoride
trifluorides
trifluoro
trifluoroacetate
trifluoroacetic
trifluoroacetic acid
trifluoroacetyl

Literary usage of Triflings

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

1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1892)
"X.—HE REPROVES THE Triflings OF THE MANICH/EANS AS TO THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH. 18. These things being ignorant of, I de- 1 The Manichaeans, ..."

2. The Manuscripts of the House of Lords 1678[-1693] by Edward Fairfax Taylor, Felix James Henry Skene (1887)
"... many triflings and delays. Prays that no order may be made on HOUSE op Court of Exchequer, wherein he in a very high manner had used 1679. the 1'etition ..."

3. Manual of the History of French Literature by Ferdinand Brunetière (1898)
"Elsewhere, however, he remarks : " These triflings,—he refers to his Fables and not, as might be imagined, to his Contes,—these ..."

4. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"... (Courtiers' Triflings). This curious book, although devoid of nny visible arrangement, made up largely of legends from his native county, ..."

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