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Definition of Railleries
1. raillery [n] - See also: raillery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Railleries
Literary usage of Railleries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"of language in the use of words w^s employed for small witticisms and railleries,1
&c. In all these things the Sophists knew neither measure nor hounds. ..."
2. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"I need not say what shiverings of horror the railleries of these cannibals caused
us. What made humanity shudder, the drownings of Carrier in the Loire, ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer (1806)
"I could wish Homer had not condescended to those low jests and mean railleries
towards the conclusion. It is true, they are not without effect, ..."
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