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Definition of Cruder
1. crude [adj] - See also: crude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cruder
Literary usage of Cruder
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)
"ballot was won, and the ministry was forced to accept it as part of their electoral
act, the cruder form of Nicholson's project being superseded by the ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... but the ghost may, in particular cases, be a refined material shape ; and the
use of the dream-ghost itself rests on an earlier cruder animism. ..."
3. Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper by James Fenimore-Cooper (1922)
"FROM HN cruder Charleston, 22 Nov., 1830. Dear Sir, Previous to embarking from
Liverpool on the second of last month I answered your Letter of 28th Sept., ..."
4. Sophocles: The Text of the Seven Plays by Sophocles (1897)
"... already containing errors of the cruder post-classical kind ; a is the ancestor
of the MSS. noticed by Eustathius as preserving Ant. 1167 ; b is the ..."
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