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Definition of Breme
1. a. Fierce; sharp; severe; cruel.
Definition of Breme
1. Adjective. (obsolete) stormy, tempestuous, fierce ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breme
1. fierce [adj] - See also: fierce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breme
Literary usage of Breme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"From East- breme of Anglia we find recorded a nameless tenant of the House of Saint
... and breme a freeman of King Ead- ward's, who came no doubt in the ..."
2. An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell Through the Twelve Dominions by Fynes Moryson (1907)
"... to Luneberg, to Hamburg, to Stode, to breme, to Oldenburg, and to Emden, (the
last City upon the confines of the Empire). Went by boat to Strasburg, ..."
3. Italy: Remarks Made in Several Visits, from the Year 1816 to 1854 by John Cam Hobhouse Broughton (1861)
"I WOULD say something more of those whom we saw at Milan in 1816, and first of
the Abate di breme, to whom we were introduced by a letter from Madame de ..."
4. Letters Written by a Turkish Spy by Giovanni Paolo] [Marana (1801)
"... ef the fort of breme, which nr.iy be termed a rampart, covering Cazal and ...
had laid fiege to breme ; and ..."
5. A Middle-English Dictionary by Francis Henry Stratmann (1891)
"792 ; breme as a bare DEGR. 1240 ; a breme bare AMAD. (Web.) 171 ; a bor so brime S.
& C. II. xx; brim 'ferus, ferox' PR. P. 51; MAN. ..."
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