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Definition of Chagrins
1. chagrin [v] - See also: chagrin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chagrins
Literary usage of Chagrins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"S. Referring to what causes trouble: distress, vexation, torment, cross, curse,
thorn, bale, pest, plague, bane, bother, chagrins (pi. ..."
2. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"... which having long promised to myself and anticipated with pleas, nre, the
disappointment greatly chagrins me. To have so kind and hospitable, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Mamma's reception of her, just off the long winter journey, and extenuated with
fatigues and sickly chagrins, was of the most cutting cruelty : " What do ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Perhaps a sudden tract of "good fortune, on the back of all the chagrins I have
... "and I will not engage myself to extend " my miseries (chagrins) into ..."
5. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"1733) reception of her, just off the long winter journey, and extenuated with
fatigues and sickly chagrins, was of the most cutting cruelty: ' What do you ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"1733] reception of her, just off the long winter journey, and extenuated with
fatigues and sickly chagrins, was of the most cutting cruelty: ' What do you ..."
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