Meaning of back-friend | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“And ſo far is our Church from encroaching upon the Civil Povver, as ſome, vvho are Back-Friends to both, vvould maliciouſly inſinuate; that vvere it ſtripped of the very Remainder of its Privileges, and made as like⟳ the Primitive Church for its Bareneſs, as it is already for its Purity, it could chearfully, and vvhat is more, loyally, vvant all ſuch Privileges; […]”

“Tho they give⟳ us neither VVine nor Ale; yet if they give⟳ us a Cup of cold VVater in the time of need⟳, in the name⟳ of Diſciple, in the name⟳ of Miniſters, they ſhall not loſe their Revvard. Novv, vvell's us for our Back-friend, he vvill ay maintain⟳ our Cauſe; […]”

“It is even as I suspected, my lord, […] Ye have⟳ back-friends, my lord, that is, unfriends—or, to be plain, enemies—about the person of the Prince.”

“I would always have⟳ been able to keep⟳ up my spirits with the reflection, that I had, in case of the worst, a stout back-friend in this uncle of mine. But now I have⟳ seen him, and, woe worth him, there has been more help⟳ in a mere mechanical stranger than I have⟳ found in my own⟳ mother's brother, my countryman and a cavalier.”

“[…] Corrie bit another atom from off the corner of his nail. He had a troublesome "back-friend" or "agnail," at which he often bit.”

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