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Zola has been, though I have no doubt that if, for instance, one had once said the Spanish war wrong he would be pretty generally 'conspue'.
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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Zola has been, though I have no doubt that if, for instance, one had once said the Spanish war wrong he would be pretty generally 'conspue'.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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Juste retour des choses ici-bas. there being absolutely no such _retour_ for Gustave -- one feels rather inclined, as his countrymen would say, to "conspue" Paul. [
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
madmouth commented on the word conspue
despise or spurn
June 23, 2009