10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIDUOUS»
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viduous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
viduous [vid-yoo-uhs] a rare adjective meaning 'empty.' William Makepeace
Thackeray (1811–1863) uses this word to describe a heart as a 'viduous mansion
' for rent after the loved one is gone, going on to say that the new tenant finds a ...
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How to Prepare for the Coop Hspt Catholic High School ...
(A) bantling (B) yapok (C) frescade (D) fefnicute (E) warmouth 4. Which word
means alive and flourishing? (F) viduous (G) vegete (H) harageous (J) vetust (K)
fogram 5. Which word means a fraud? (A) dolus (B)gledge (C) frescade (D) gapo
(E) ...
Max Peters, Jerome Shostak, 1997
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The Modern English Novel: The Reader, the Writer, and the Work
... passing in the single occasion. The special complexity of the fourth sentence
here deserves close attention. 'With some men, she gone, and her viduous
mansion your heart to let, her successor the new occupant poking in all the
drawers, ...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, ...
... who,,notwithstanding, supported them within those walls; nor was the number
small, for, but that the talk would be too in_ viduous, he could mention no lessv
than fifty members of that house, Who had held that language and conduct.
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
(rare) vidual, viduous = widowed. syns. seneucia, veuvage, viduation, viduité, q.v.
See marriage. See role. viduation (vi-dyoŏ-ay'shǝn) n. (rare) widowhood, state of
being a widow; widows. [< L vidua widow + -tion, suff., an action or process or ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
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An Historical Account of the Virgin Islands, in the West ...
... Tt had never beers thought of, as it contributed to increase the diffe'utiosls^
which at that time prevailed amongst the pedple $ arid there Were not wanting
malignant spirits, to aggravate and represent things in trie^istost in- Viduous 1/ght
.
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Discourses controversial and practical
... him by this wretched world ; which, after all the compliment of these external
things, always looks with a jealous, often with a contemptuous eye on him, who
seems to value himself on account of these in- viduous, these interfering honours
.
Philip Skelton, Samuel Burdy, Robert Lynam, 1824
With some men, she gone, and her viduous mansion your heart to let, her
successor, the new occupant, poking in all the drawers, and corners, and
cupboards of the tenement, finds her miniature and some of her dusty old letters
hidden away ...
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... unfurnished, uninhabited, unintelligent, unoccupied, unreal, unsatisfactory,
unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, valueless, viduous, void, waste
, worthless. v. clean, consume, deplete, discharge, drain, dump, evacuate,
exhaust, ...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
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New Novelists' Magazine
Let Walsingham alone be the protector of that unsullied virtue, which not even the
power of the most in- viduous slander can throw a dark it •hade on, or rob of its
celestial brightness. Speak, Theodora, THE TEST OP INNOCENCE. 297.
