2. Verb. (archaic) (second-person singular of mean) ¹
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Definition of Meanest
1. mean [adj] - See also: mean
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meanest
Literary usage of Meanest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And let tby fate instruct the proud, God's meanest creature is His child.' '
Be chased forever through the wood, Forever roam the affrighted wild ; .•>. ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"HOW THE meanest MAN GOT SO MEAN, AND HOW MEAN HE GOT. [Zury : the meanest Man in
Spring County. 1887. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"place of those deities who are conceived by the understanding, has •*• substituted
the meanest and most contemptible slaves. ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1849)
"... and the meanest threat we ever imagined, was that of an unprincipled man of
genius in his quarrel with an honest farmer,—that he would " write him down. ..."
5. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... of butchering thy children! but must they descend also to exploits too infamously
dirty for any but the meanest of the mobility to practice ? ..."
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