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Close-knit   /kloʊs-nɪt/   Listen
Close-knit

adjective
1.
Held together as by social or cultural ties.  Synonym: closely knit.  "Close-knit little villages" , "The group was closely knit"






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... personality is prominent in all his speeches. When he says "I," or "my," he never appears to indulge in the bravado of self-assertion, because the words are felt to express a positive, stalwart, almost colossal manhood, which had already been implied in the close-knit sentences in which he embodied his statements and arguments. He is an eminent instance of the power which character communicates to style. Though evidently proud, self-respecting, and high-spirited, he is ever above mere vanity and egotism. Whenever he gives emphasis to ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster



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