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- noun Obsolete form of
exterior .
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Examples
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Yes, there's an optimist buried underneath my sarcastic exteriour.
For the annals of anti-Althousiana. Ann Althouse 2009
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Cogitations, and how inevitable the Vicissitudes of exteriour Events!
Exilius 2008
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It is certain that a man may be very immoral with exteriour grace.
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For indeed the exteriour habit of this our English politician, to wit, the harsh and vnaffected stile of his substantiall verses and the olde dialect of his wordes is such; as the first may seeme to haue bene whistled of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Reasoning then, as well as feeling, the only province of woman, at present, they might easily guard against exteriour graces, and quickly learn to despise the sensibility that had been excited and hackneyed in the ways of women, whose trade was vice; and allurements, wanton airs.
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In fact, behaviour in most circumstances is now so much thought of, that simplicity of character is rarely to be seen: yet, if men were only anxious to cultivate each virtue, and let it take root firmly in the mind, the grace resulting from it, its natural exteriour mark, would soon strip affectation of its flaunting plumes; because, fallacious as unstable, is the conduct that is not founded upon truth!
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They want the exteriour and superficial Accomplishments of Gentlemen, upon which the World has foolishly set so high a Value.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 - 4 August 1776 1963
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Nation, to be very solicitous about the Charms of the exteriour Exhibition of a
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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That mind which harboureth Philosophie, ought by reason of her sound health, make that bodie also sound and healthie: it ought to make her contentment to through-shine in all exteriour parts: it ought to shapen and modell all outward demeanours to the modell of it: and by consequence arme him that doth possesse it, with a gracious stoutnesse and lively audacite, with an active and pleasing gesture, and with a setled and cheerefull countenance.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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Communicating, because one Communion disposes it for another; yet I will shew the two ways of Preparation: The first for the exteriour Souls which have good Desire and Will.
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