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Definition of Tersest
1. terse [adj] - See also: terse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tersest
Literary usage of Tersest
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)
"... expansion of their subject, they boasted of having the art of compressing
their meaning into the tersest language ; ' besides independent discussion, ..."
2. The Daily Life: Or, Precepts and Prescriptions for Christian Living by John Cumming (1855)
"True prayer is the deep expression of our deepest wants in the simplest and the
tersest Saxon, and in the hearing of him who knows all our deepest wants ..."
3. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"It may be imagined that in dream formation a good part of the intermediary
activity, which tries to reduce the separate dream-thoughts to the tersest and ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1898)
"Swift hereupon published a pamphlet, signed ' M. 15. drapier,' in his tersest style.
He declared, with audacious exaggeration, that Wood's project would ..."
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