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edacious

[ih-dey-shuhs] / ɪˈdeɪ ʃəs /


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And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

If, mounting MALAMBRUNO's steed, He showed more sanguine than sagacious, He was not moved by huckster greed, Or pride edacious.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 by Various

Personages of it, Two British subjects in the high Diplomatic line: ponderous Scotch Lord of an edacious gloomy countenance; florid Yorkshire Gentleman with important Proposals in his pocket.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle

After this Hugo, not contented with the tragedy of the edacious murderer, gives us seven pages of his favourite rhetoric in saccadé paragraphs on the general question.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.

From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren




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