Meaning of rail out | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of rail (“to complain violently”).

Examples

“In all this rayling out againſt Him, yee ſee the extreame humiliation of IESVS CHRIST, for our ſinnes: Hee is made of no reputation: No, He is trodde on as a worme: […]”

“If then any body makes opposition, which is not easily done, though he be well grounded, His Honor bursts out immediately in such a fury and makes such gestures, that it is frightful; yea, he rails out frequently at the Councillors for this thing and the other, with ill words which would better suit the fish-market than the Council chamber;—and if this be all endured, His Honor will not rest yet unless he have his will.”

“This mornin’ she rails out at me fer dunkin’ my cooky and she says COFFEE IS FER SIPPIN’ AND NOT FER SAUCERIN’ . . .”

“The tone of Chance is one of casual and bland superiority, and Marlow exhibits intense emotion rarely and incongruously, as when he rails out against confessions after presumably having sought to elicit Flora’s.”

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