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Definition of Maimers
1. maimer [n] - See also: maimer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maimers
Literary usage of Maimers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grammar of the English Tongue: The Whole Making a Compleat System of an by John Brightland (1759)
"... not of Inclinations or Habits, fo there is no Allion that does not proceed
front the Manners and the Sentiments; and therefore the maimers and the ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"... the habits, the maimers, and the opinions of the people amongst whom it is to
be introduced will admit of the establishment of a weak and dependent ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1829)
"... but his engagement and behaviour in the holy war, announced in Robert a
reformation of maimers, and restored him in some degree to the public esteem. ..."
4. A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1912)
"For these maimers Jefferson provided that the culprit should be disfigured in
like sort with his victim ; if his own countenance lacked the part disfigured ..."
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