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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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FLOUNCE, v.i. flouns. [See Flounder.]
FLOUNCE, v.t. To deck with a flounce; as, to flounce a petticoat or frock.
FLOUNCE, n. A narrow piece of cloth sewed to a petticoat, frock or gown, with the lower border loose and spreading. The present is the age of flounces. 1827.
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other] to
spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle,
as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or
spasm, often as in displeasure.
To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The act of
floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
An
ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a
strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and
left hanging.
To deck with a
flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a
frock.
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