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- adjective
superlative form ofprow : mostprow .
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Examples
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He had honour to the full; yet, if he had possessed nothing at all, none that saw him had denied him to be the prowest champion that ever rode a horse.
The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour
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The high-spirited knights of one side challenged the prowest knights of the other, as their predecessors in chivalry had done.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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Word hath reached me in the land of my father, that, hereby thee, dwell the prowest ever sworn to king.
The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour
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This, if you have been tardy on the journey home, will follow close on the heels of the prowest, I believe truest, of knights, and bear perhaps to his quick mind some help to the solution he dropped a hint of seeking.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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This, if you have been tardy on the journey home, will follow close on the heels of the prowest, I believe truest, of knights, and bear perhaps to his quick mind some help to the solution he dropped a hint of seeking.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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This, if you have been tardy on the journey home, will follow close on the heels of the prowest, I believe truest, of knights, and bear perhaps to his quick mind some help to the solution he dropped a hint of seeking.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Know, O auspicious king and lord of right rede and praiseworthy meed and prowest of deed, that, when the folk heard how the king had put away from him his malpractice and returned from his unrighteous wont, they rejoiced in this with joy exceeding and offered up prayers for him.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Jinn and the prowest of them in wing-flying and horse-manship, and fared on till they drew near the Crescent Mountain.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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And heading his prowest knights, William came, as a thunderbolt, on the bills and shields.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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On, to the cry of the Norman warrior; the cry before which have fled so often the prowest Paladins of Burgundy and France -- 'Notre Dame et
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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