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High-wrought adj.

Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate. (Obs.)

Worked up, or swollen, to a high degree; as, a highwrought passion. "A high-wrought flood."

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Etymology of 'High-wrought'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"High-wrought" Quotes from Famous Books

... formative, high-wrought English literature has suffered in Tennyson's passing from the age on which he has shed so much glory those can best say who are of his era, and have been intimate, as each appeared, with every successive issue ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII • John Lord

... wont to walk at evening-tide; When we saw nought but beauty; when we heard 290 The voice of that Almighty One, who lov'd us, In every gale that breath'd, and wave that murmur'd! O we have listen'd, even till high-wrought pleasure Hath half-assumed the countenance of grief, And the deep sigh seem'd to heave up a weight 295 Of bliss, that press'd too heavy ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... when presented in concrete form. This would be especially the case with a man like Professor Valeyon, who was half a dreamer, and half a practical, common-sensible individual. With Sophie, however, whose whole life was necessarily a tissue of delicate and high-wrought theories, there was no safeguard of the ...

— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne