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Definition of Straightest
1. straight [adj] - See also: straight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straightest
Literary usage of Straightest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... as our belief— when our faith is as enlightened as it is im- l>Ucit—when the
growth of the one only con- ier than amusement, the straightest and the ..."
2. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1805)
"... for being constructed at a period when the laws of property were superseded
by the power of conquest, they were naturally laid out in the straightest ..."
3. A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of st. Peter by Robert Leighton (1849)
"... from temer, a palm-tree,) signifies straight pillars, like the tallest,
straightest kind of trees. And, indeed, the sincerity and ..."
4. Rational Geometry: A Text-book for the Science of Space; Based on Hilbert's by George Bruce Halsted, David Hilbert (1904)
"Any two points of a straightest, not each the other's opposite, determine this
straightest; and on every straightest there are at least two points not ..."
5. Italian Highways by E. Augusta King (1896)
"Even the straightest of spires, if very tall, will seem to bend towards the
driving clouds when you watch it intently. The railway from Bologna to Lucca ..."
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