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Examples
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Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
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The leek had to be eaten at last: why, after so many "prave 'ords" of superiority and defiance, confess that the eating of it had been more than half foreseen all along?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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Jane and Walter, after many "prave 'orts" about climbing the ridge behind
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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After Mr. ASQUITH'S "prave 'orts" at the National Liberal Club the mildness of his criticism upon the Government's foreign policy sadly disappointed his more ardent supporters.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 Various
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You and I would have begun to quake and tremble, but Hosea was not afraid; he was a prave man, a pold man.
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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Hambright, sorely wounded, his boot overflowing with blood and his hat riddled with three bullet holes, declined to dismount, but pressed gallantly forward, exclaiming in his "Pennsylvania Dutch": "Huzza, my prave poys, fight on a few minutes more, and the pattle will be over!"
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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The Duke of Exeter hath very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is gone off, look you, and there is gallant and most prave passages.
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Ill assure you a uttered as prave words at the pridge as you shall see in a summers day.
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These were "prave 'orts" and valorous protestations.
The Fortunate Youth 1914
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Your grandfather of famous memory, ant please your majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
biocon commented on the word prave
Prave means corrupt, evil, depraved (Oxford English Dictionary).
October 12, 2011