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Definition of Diehards
1. diehard [n] - See also: diehard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diehards
Literary usage of Diehards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"... the irreducible minimum that the diehards would accept; and the amendment's
rejection in the lords on August 10 opened die way for the Parliament Bill's ..."
2. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal by Corinne Comstock Weston (1995)
"It was the irreducible minimum that the diehards would accept; and the amendment's
rejection in the lords on August 10 opened the way for the Parliament ..."
3. From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan by Judith Sunderland (2002)
"... those present that half the Falungong "diehards" and "zealots" had to be
transformed by the end of the year, and 80 percent must remain transformed. ..."
4. Soldier Songs by Patrick MacGill (1917)
"DEDICATION sat in their huts and sang the song of the "Old diehards." Mere doggerel
the verse, the words fatuous, and the singing not above reproach. ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1898)
"... they might have been ui play At Omdurman, the Thirty-Seventh Battery RA l It't
perhaps the fancy titles euch as " Death or Glory Boys," Or " diehards," ..."
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