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Definition of Flytings
1. flyting [n] - See also: flyting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flytings
Literary usage of Flytings
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 (1901)
"But they meant mischief, as those flytings did not. They were born of personal
offence, and carried on with a real bitterness of feeling. ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1893)
"But they meant mischief, as those flytings did not. They were born of personal
offence, and carried on with a real bitterness of feeling. ..."
3. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Frederick York Powell, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1883)
"It is poor stuff, imitating however and echoing the Dialogue-metre flytings of
the old poems. The Editor, as early as Мяу, 1854, made a collection of these ..."
4. Dramatic Works by John Ford (1811)
"... is of the same nature as the flytings, which were a source of great amusement
to our ancestors. As instances may be adduced, ..."
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