Definitions
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- adjective obsolete
thrasonical
Etymologies
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Examples
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Laureate, have found in the Peninsular struggle with Napoleon, the very perfection of popular grandeur; others, agreeing with ourselves, have seen in this pretended struggle nothing but the last extravagance of thrasonic and impotent national arrogance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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"Art for Art's sake!" shouts the thrasonic Frenchman,
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[Adams] which are more thrasonic than the addresses.
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Even the Kaiser has begun to abate his thrasonic tone, declaring that "it is not the Prussian way to praise oneself," and that "it is now a matter of holding out, however long it lasts."
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Tu-Kila-Kila lifted himself up in his thrasonic mood.
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a foreign nation to show that apathy to the answers of the President, which are more thrasonic than the addresses.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
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Session) with an eye as fine and soft as the Thracian Rhodope's, or as threatening and commanding as that of Mars -- even a hectoring fiery thrasonic Hibernian Mars -- himself, without being able to tell whether it was a black or a blue one, or even a Green or a Yellow.
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C.S.C.), and read and enjoy the smart slating Mr. LEHMANN administers to tumid, tumultuous, thrasonic, turncoatist ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, for saying of the brilliant and well-beloved Author of _Fly Leaves_, &c., that he -- forsooth!
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