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Definition of Hardhanded
1. a. Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
Definition of Hardhanded
1. Adjective. forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hardhanded
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardhanded
Literary usage of Hardhanded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Thomas Carlyle (1894)
"... noblest and hardest work set before them : To deliver out of that Egyptian
bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions; ..."
2. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished by Thomas Carlyle (1891)
"... bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions; of
whom this hardhanded earnest witness and writer is here representative. ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... of tinners and stonemasons, and hardhanded workers generally, as no man's
words had done before for centuries, if ever, or have done since. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"hardhanded,(hard'-band-ed)a. Coarse; exercising severity.
HARDHEARTEDNESS,(hard-hart'-ed-nes> 7i. s. Cruelty ; want of tenderness. ..."
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