Edwards
['edwədz]
Definition
(noun.) American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758).
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Examples
- Edwards--Dick and Lucy--man and wife, six hundred dollars; wench Polly and two children--six hundred for her or her head. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In 1817 he married Henrietta Edwards, the daughter of Judge Pierpont Edwards, of Connecticut. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Edwards, that with the English race-horse the spinal stripe is much commoner in the foal than in the full-grown animal. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Edwards pressed on me a silver-gilt boot-jack, and I might have had a dressing-case fitted up with a silver warming-pan, and a service of plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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