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Definition of Jobations
1. jobation [n] - See also: jobation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jobations
Literary usage of Jobations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"Insults and oaths, curses, jobations, protests, flow from him as from an open
barrel He is never at a loss; he devises a shift for every difficulty. ..."
2. The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays by Richard Cumberland, Aristophanes (1798)
"... .the frequent jobations 1 incurred for neglect .of college duties, and
particularly for non- attendance at chapel, but in this I mould not perhaps have ..."
3. The Observer by Richard Cumberland (1822)
"... the scullion demanded tea-money, and the cook murmured about kitchen stuff.
the frequent jobations I incurred for neglect of college duties, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Getting tired of repeated jobations, the mischievous imp one day carried the
horse up to the top of a high tower, and there left him, with his head thrust ..."
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