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Definition of Keenest
1. keen [adj] - See also: keen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keenest
Literary usage of Keenest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"... a perfect knowledge of the subjects they relate ; and their moral character,
though rigidly tried, was never impeached by their keenest opponents. — II. ..."
2. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"However, good-breeding obliges a raan to maintain the figure of the keenest
attention, the true posture of which in a coffee-house, ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"All stars discernible by the keenest of human sight, without the aid of a telescope,
have long been noted down on charts, and their position in the vaulted ..."
4. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... here and there one of enormous size, surrounded by thousands of poor little
starveling things, scarcely distinguishable by the keenest eye, or, if seen, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... factors of energy and overpowering moral force which, through all material
changes in armament, must ever remain among the keenest weapons of cavalry. ..."
6. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... and the virtues, the ascription of which would be too keenest discernment
cultivated, in the royal gross lo impose on his discernment. There éducation. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... yet he does not exclude pleasure, but holds that pleasure in its keenest form
springs from virtue. Pleasure completes an action, is added to it, ..."
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