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Definition of Belabours
1. belabour [v] - See also: belabour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belabours
Literary usage of Belabours
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"For Dunstan his own back not less belabours Than he belabours Satan. The priest
and the priest-ridden queen-mother :— Dunstan. What there is writ Needs must ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"His hand is heavy, it is true; more dreary irony was never written; and he
belabours his theme like a peasant wielding a flail; but the eighteenth century ..."
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