Definition of "miscellanies" [miscellanies]

• Plural form of miscellany. (noun)

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• "Van Hensbergen is part of a team working on the Digital Miscellanies Index project, which is investigating the literary culture and reading habits of the 18th century by studying the poetry collections or "miscellanies" common at the time."
• "Honest Ned, feeling indignant that he was not himself the direct recipient of the bribes, and also anxious to win favor in the widow's eyes, took the charge against Mr. Gray, who was very soon locked up, with the "miscellanies," in the black hole, until bail could be procured."
• "Proulx's highly idiosyncratic memoir, "Bird Cloud," is a rattling trunk of miscellanies."