Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
insular . - noun Same as
insular .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Insular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete form of
insular .
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Examples
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What was revolutionary about what the Lindens original plan was that it combined normal, earth-based concepts of connection and search with the modern Internet concepts including even some of the Web 2.0 social web -- but without the massive impersonality -- rooted nevertheless in a kind of insulary geekitude -- that destructive Google represents.
World of SL 2010
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The young insulary, with many blushes and a gros juron, as his polite way is, said he had not wished to say a word against that person.
The Newcomes 2006
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He had only informed her most politely that she was to be transferred to another diligence and must do him the favour to descend; but she evidently knew of but one way for a respectable young insulary of her sex to receive the politeness of a foreign adventurer guilty of an eye betraying latent pleasantry.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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The young insulary, with many blushes and a gros juron, as his polite way is, said he had not wished to say a word against that person.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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