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Definition of Hackneying
1. hackney [v] - See also: hackney
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackneying
Literary usage of Hackneying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pages from a Private Diary by Henry Charles Beeching (1899)
"And then, too, the production of so many copies has the same banal effect as the
hackneying of a phrase; so that a photograph is fitly styled a ..."
2. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"... repeated quotation is no doubt alloyed by ironical intention; but no disrespect
is implied by the hackneying of words winged merely for a stage-flight. ..."
3. The Poets and Poetry of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices by William Turner Coggeshall (1860)
"... the author of these verses survives the chances of the distant and deadly
climate in which his lot is cast, and is not, in the hackneying cares of life, ..."
4. Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1856)
"He begins to discover that hackneying authorship is not the way to be great — to
allow that six hours' writing in a public office is better than the same ..."
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