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Definition of Parnell
1. Noun. Irish nationalist leader (1846-1891).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parnell
Literary usage of Parnell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"Parnell was made BD and DD by Dublin University in 1712, and towards the end of
the year ... Swift told Esther Johnson—who seems to have known I»>rh Parnell ..."
2. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"Parnell was now beginning to circulate among his friends copies of verses, ...
Swift told Stella in 1712 that Parnell outdid " all our poets here by a bar's ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"We intimated that Mr. Parnell, Knight of the Shire for Wicklow, was the supposed
author of ... But Mr. Parnell is not of this opinion, nor indeed were we. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In 1886 Gladstone definitely declared in favor of Home Rule, and gained the
support of Parnell and his party; in that same year the Home Rule Bill was ..."
5. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1919)
"Up to this F[RANCIS] H[ACKETT] time Willie had not met Mr. Parnell.' [Wm Republic.
December 5, .914. By permission At th.is time Parnell was thirty-four of ..."
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