Lexicographical Neighbors of Morosest
Literary usage of Morosest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Guardian by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1804)
"——Ridiculum acri Fortius et melius HOR. 1. Sat. x. 14. A jest in scorn points
out, and hits the thing More home, than the morosest satire's sting. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1861)
"... and which certainly have no popular parallel in merry England i Is it not
certain that this must be the morosest of nations, which thrills even your ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1826)
"After this narrative, enough, we should think, to soften the morosest nature,
the author proceeds to hold the memory of these young ladies up to contempt or ..."
4. Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History by Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1910)
"... becomes instinct with a human interest so genuine and alluring that only the
very dullest or morosest can resist its spell. Exuberant J But what, then, ..."
5. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1810)
"A jest in scorn points out, and hits the thing More home, than the morosest
satire's sting. THERE are many little enormities in the world, ..."
6. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"A jeast in scorn points out and hits the thing More home than the morosest Satyrs
sting. Shake-spear and Johnson did herein excell, And might in this be ..."
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