Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tent; a pavilion.
- noun A small pellet, as of solder.
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Examples
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Incontinent they brought forth Cochran, and his hands bound with a tow, who desired them to take one of his own pallion tows and bind his hands, for he thought shame to have his hands bound with such tow of hemp, like a thief.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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'Notwithstanding, the lords held them quiet till they caused certain armed men to pass into the King's pallion, and two or three wise men to pass with them, and give the King fair pleasant words, till they laid hands on all the King's servants and took them and hanged them before his eyes over the bridge of Lawder.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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Oh, ye gods! bow pallion alters The nobleft of your works!
Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D. Hugh Downman 1792
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I was the more folicitous for this honour, btxaufc the good prelate had been reprcfcntcd as a bigot, whofc folc employment was to count his beads, and his only pallion to live fe - cluded eluded from the world.
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Fondly now ihe ftrove To banifji pallion; now the vafllil days.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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He whofe pallion runs high for either riches or power, bids fiiir for being no patriot.
The miscellaneous works, in verse and prose, of Gorges Edmond Howard. .. 1782
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It feemed in all other places, that this pallion, to men fo natural, infinuated it felf with a kind of fweetnefs, or at leart prefentcd at rirft, fomething cf flattery agreeable to the mind.
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Conjtaiitine difpatch'd a Courier to Oriavia, to give her an Accompt of his journey, and to entertain her with that pallion, of which Levers tiiink they can never talk enough.
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He lov'd, and lov'd with a violcrrf pallion, riot knowing v/hom he lov'd.
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The great place which the doc - trine of Tropes and Figures has occupied in fyftems of rhetoric 5 the over-anxious care which has been fhewn in giving names to a vaft variety of them, and in ranging them under different clafles, has often led perfons to imagine, that, if their compofition was well befpangled with a-number of thefe orna - rnents of Speech, it wanted no other beauty j whence has arifen much flifFnefs and affeda - tion« For it is, in truth5 the fentiment or pallion, which lies under the figured expref - fion, that gives, it any merit.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Three Volumes ... 1787
pavonine commented on the word pallion
a small piece or pellet. OED
June 9, 2008