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Definition of Acerbities
1. acerbity [n] - See also: acerbity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acerbities
Literary usage of Acerbities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1898)
"... Bye-elections—Party acerbities—Guildhall Banquet—The “Breach of Faith”
Disappears—Lord Salisbury at the Albert Hall—Sir William ..."
2. William Winston Seaton of the "National Intelligencer". by Josephine Seaton (1871)
"... but carried into the editorial arena his innate decorum and gracious amenity,
which not even the acerbities of partisan warfare could disturb. ..."
3. Potter's American Monthly (1880)
"There is no natural occasion for any acerbities of Nature, because all her
emanations are amenities, so long as human beings subsist in harmony with ..."
4. The Exclusive Claims of Puseyite Episcopalians to the Christian Ministry by John Brown (1844)
"No such acerbities appear in these passages, but they express his calm and
deliberate opinion as to the origin of Episcopacy ; and if, ..."
5. The Exclusive Claims of Pusevite Episcopalians to the Christian Ministry by John Brown (1842)
"No such acerbities appear in these passages, but they express his calm and
deliberate opinion as to the origin of Episcopacy ; and if, under the influence ..."
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