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Definition of Frettings
1. fretting [n] - See also: fretting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frettings
Literary usage of Frettings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eliza Cook's journal by Eliza Cook (1850)
"I will try and do all that's right to please you." And then he kissed the pouting
lips into good humour. But these little frettings returned again and r.ii. ..."
2. The Young Man: Hints Addressed to the Young Men of the United States by John Todd (1845)
"... the setting at naught the counsels of those who are older, the longings for
time to go away, and the thousand frettings over its own ..."
3. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"The Priory at Christchurch was a noble pile, but it was cold and bare, methinks,
by one of these, with their frettings, and their carvings, ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1895)
"... jealousies and frettings at reproof are apt to act like sand, that has got
mixed with the oil in the bearings of a great and complex machinery. ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"... and supplications of the Uitlanders into seditious talk, and their frettings
into threatenings — the final outcome to be revolt and armed rebellion. ..."
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