arrant
see also: Arrant
Pronunciation Adjective
Arrant
Proper noun
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see also: Arrant
Pronunciation Adjective
arrant (comparative arranter, superlative arrantest)
- Utter; complete (with a negative sense).
- arrant nonsense! [1708]
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040 ↗, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610 ↗:
- He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, “In which the Surgeon Makes His Second Appearance”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume III, London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book VIII, page 164 ↗:
- He is an arrant Scrub, I aſſure you.
- 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, “The Spouter-Inn”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗, page 16 ↗:
- The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
- Obsolete form of errant#English|errant.
- circa 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, scene 1:
- We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
- circa 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, scene 1:
- Russian: су́щий
Arrant
Proper noun
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