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Definition of Euphemist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemist
Literary usage of Euphemist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"The great euphemist of that age; he studied and polished his speeches until they
reached a pitch of rhetorical perfection unexampled since the days of Greek ..."
2. American Literature: A Text-book for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Julian Hawthorne (1898)
"Edward Everett (1794- 1865), however, was the great euphemist of that age; he
studied and polished his speeches until they reached a pitch of rhetorical ..."
3. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"... one may conclude that their interpolator only used II, and probably had not
seen I at alL This euphemist glossator is very probably the author of II*. ..."
4. Through War to Peace: A Study of the Great War as an Incident in the by Albert Galloway Keller (1921)
"... tion " as the euphemist asserts and as the discreet hope. Those who come after,
and are not distraught by the confusion, the heat and dust, ..."
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