Thackeray's Selected Shorter Writings Glossary

By Lina Christoph · Edited by Patrick Kennedy · Last reviewed June 29, 2020

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Written by Lina Christoph

discourse

to speak to, to lecture

erring

sinful, unrighteous

beauteous

beautiful, very attractive

patois

dialect, jargon

denuded

exposed, undressed

traipse

to walk, to stroll

bedewed

wet, moistened

illusory

unreal, hallucinatory

somnambulist

a sleepwalker

maligned

infamized, villainized

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