Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
nithing .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Infamous; dastardly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
infamous ;dastardly
Etymologies
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Examples
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I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and 'nidering', [581] to forgive and receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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Conqueror, hated as he was by them, continued to draw a considerable army of Anglo – Saxons to his standard, by threatening to stigmatize those who staid at home, as nidering.
Ivanhoe 2004
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All the races amongst whom my travels lay, hold him nidering who hides his origin in places of danger; and secondly, my white face had converted me into a Turk, a nation more hated and suspected than any Europeans, without our prestige.
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I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and _nidering_, *
Ivanhoe 1892
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All the races amongst whom my travels lay, hold him nidering who hides his origin in places of danger; and secondly, my white face had converted me into a Turk, a nation more hated and suspected than any
First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855
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I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering, Infamous. to forgive and receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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At length he spoke, in a voice half choked with passion; and, addressing himself to Prince John as the head and front of the offence which he had received, "Whatever," he said, "have been the follies and vices of our race, a Saxon would have been held nidering," There was nothing accounted so ignominious among the Saxons as to merit this disgraceful epithet.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Even William the Conqueror, hated as he was by them, continued to draw a considerable army of Anglo-Saxons to his standard, by threatening to stigmatize those who staid at home, as nidering.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Even William the Conqueror, hated as he was by them, continued to draw a considerable army of Anglo-Saxons to his standard, by threatening to stigmatize those who staid at home, as nidering.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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It is demanded from bastard Arabs, and from tribes who, like the Hutaym and the Khalawiyah, have been born basely or have become “nidering.”
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
hernesheir commented on the word nidering
Neither gold nor silver can save you, you nidering nithing.
January 3, 2012