Thesaurus / moiety

moiety

How to use moiety in a sentence

I frankly confess that from thenceforward I considered the second Moiety of the Reward as lost for ever.

He paid the second moiety of the 2,000 on the 28th of July; on the same day the election committee was ballotted.

You can take up half of what are on the bed out yonder, and you may carry them away with you, leaving a moiety to us.

The altered tone of the miller's moiety corresponded very much with this supposition.

In his extremity, he was rescued by La Cosa who had kept in hand a moiety of the shore party.

The first moiety indeed of these ten ages is almost absolutely barren, and presents little but a catalogue of evils.

One moiety of it is taken up by a square fabric twelve yards high, built for a charnel-house.

The veriest moiety of the wisdom of God transcends the accumulated knowledge of men in its entirety.

But to turn now to the second moiety of the period above named—that extending from 1865 to 1885.

A BOOK OF BURLESQUEWILLAM DAVENPORT ADAMS

There is only 'in each local centre a great predominance of one moiety.'

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985