leastwise
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of leastwise
Example Sentences
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Where are the children, "adjudged the leastwise of the land"?
From Time Magazine Archive
“Yes, sah; good mawn, sah; leastwise I jest saw Miss Gertrude go in; they all stayen’ ovah at Terrace; I reckon 260 she rode back for something.
From The Bondwoman by Ryan, Marah Ellis
I can talk, sir, leastwise I could when I was well; but it’s my humble opinion that that woman would have rapped out three words to my one.”
From Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes by Fenn, George Manville
Thus a Spanish word uttered by one man at one time overthrew, or at the leastwise hindered, sundry privy practices of many at another.
From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William
“There ain’t going to be no proposing, leastwise not by me.”
From Captain Pott's Minister by Cooper, Francis L. (Francis Le Roy)
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