lesbian rule
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A flexible leaden mason's rule that can be bent around the curves of a molding, and thus used to measure or reproduce irregular curves.
noun
A flexible principle, one which may be bent to accommodate or fit different circumstances.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Lesbian rule.
Example Sentences
- "Or, with a Lesbian rule—that strip of soft lead which could be pressed into a particularly satisfying molding to record its profile—we explored buildings that interested us."
- "Instead , the good architect would use a "Lesbian" rule, which "adapts itself to the shape of the stone and is not rigid.""
- "He asks: “Is Scripture become a Lesbian''' rule and bowed to our fancies? But this is the very answer that a classical brother gave me […]"
- "[…] that it may exercise authority as a rule for the direction of life, and for prescribing some limits to liberty, and not that it may be slavishly subservient to the wills of men, like a Lesbian rule, which may be accommodated to every condition; since these are some of the properties of religion, man is not permitted to stipulate concerning it, […]"
- "[…] and cemented by a thousand links of union, the law of marriage should be a Lesbian rule, which shifts according to the circumstances of place; and that acts which in England would be absolutely null may be binding marriages in Scotland […]"
- "Lesbian rules — rules which accommodate themselves to the wishes of men, and bend to all the demands of denominational prejudice — have been quite too long employed to elucidate, or rather to misinterpret, the Scriptures."