Lexicographical Neighbors of Nearliest
Literary usage of Nearliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Moralists: Being Selections from Writers Principally of the by Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge (1897)
"... of his having done the greatest Good he was capable to do, of his having best
answered the ends of his Creation, and nearliest imitated the Perfections ..."
2. The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its by Henry Martyn Dexter, Andover Theological Seminary (1880)
"And for the church here, which is nearliest united unto you, what other use have
you had of us, since the death of your wise and modest governors,20? in all ..."
3. The Pastor of the Pilgrims: A Biography of John Robinson by Walter Herbert Burgess (1920)
"There is a note of tiredness and disappointment in this letter at the bickerings
which marked the Church " nearliest united " unto his own religious society ..."
4. Henry Barrow, Separatist (1550?-1593) and the Exiled Church of Amsterdam by Frederick James Powicke (1900)
"In this disgrace, the Leyden Church has shared—has, in fact, as the Church "nearliest
united unto " them shared in it very largely. But for the last time! ..."
5. On English Adjectives in -able: With Special Reference to Reliable by Fitzedward Hall (1877)
"... to seek no further than to the next causes, and, particularly, in those wherein
it is nearliest concerned ; and so, selling a judgment upon those alone, ..."
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