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  • adjective superlative form of rife: most rife.

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Examples

  • Yet let it be remembered that in this very summer exactly at the moment when these intrigues were going on between the King of Spain and the class of men most opposed to Barneveld, the accusations against his fidelity were loudest and rifest.

    Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618 John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Yet let it be remembered that in this very summer exactly at the moment when these intrigues were going on between the King of Spain and the class of men most opposed to Barneveld, the accusations against his fidelity were loudest and rifest.

    Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Yet let it be remembered that in this very summer exactly at the moment when these intrigues were going on between the King of Spain and the class of men most opposed to Barneveld, the accusations against his fidelity were loudest and rifest.

    Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Yet let it be remembered that in this very summer exactly at the moment when these intrigues were going on between the King of Spain and the class of men most opposed to Barneveld, the accusations against his fidelity were loudest and rifest.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • Glyndon noticed that, in their rambles, Mejnour often paused where the foliage was rifest, to gather some herb or flower; and this reminded him that he had seen Zicci similarly occupied.

    Zicci — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Glyndon noticed that, in their rambles, Mejnour often paused, where the foliage was rifest, to gather some herb or flower; and this reminded him that he had seen Zanoni similarly occupied.

    Zanoni Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Glyndon noticed that, in their rambles, Mejnour often paused where the foliage was rifest, to gather some herb or flower; and this reminded him that he had seen Zicci similarly occupied.

    Zicci — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • (as I tould you) or our good neighboures, was one of the sortes of illusiones that was rifest in the time of _Papistrie_: for although it was holden odious to Prophesie by the deuill, yet whome these kinde of

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

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