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Definition of Discreetest
1. discreet [adj] - See also: discreet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discreetest
Literary usage of Discreetest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"CHIEFEST AND discreetest. — " Where the election (for a CHARITY) was given to
the inhabitants and parishioners, or the major part of the ' chief est and ..."
2. The Law of Charities and Mortmain: Being a 3d Ed. of Tudor's Charitable Trusts by Owen Davies Tudor, Leonard Syer Bristowe, Walter Ivimey Cook (1889)
"It was held that " chiefest" must be construed as meaning those who paid church
and poor rates ; and " discreetest" those who had attained the age of ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1837)
"... from henceforth from time to time for ever, there may and shall be in the
borough aforesaid two of the honestest and discreetest burgesses in the said ..."
4. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"Such generally is the discreetest man, particularly in any art the most skilfull
and discreetest, and in all other things for the more part those that be of ..."
5. The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, George Cruikshank (1869)
"The civil division of England into counties, hundreds and towns began under
Alfred, who made the discreetest man in the place the ..."
6. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"... one or two more of the discreetest of the Inhabitants ; The holding of a court
there by ye Constable & Overseer being not practicable amongst them in ..."
7. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"... and in a town corporate of the mayor or other head officer with two others of
the discreetest persons of the same corporation ; and if the offence shall ..."
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