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Firsthand   /fərsthˈænd/  /fərshˈænd/  /fˈərsthænd/  /fˈərshænd/   Listen
Firsthand

adjective
1.
Received directly from a source.






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"Firsthand" Quotes from Famous Books



... some point of mental contact. A superficial knowledge of sociology and a practical experience with many races brought him and Frank Merrill into frequent discussion. His interest in all athletic sports and his firsthand information in regard to them made common ground between him and Billy Fairfax. With Honey Smith, he talked business, adventure, and romance; with Pete Murphy, German opera, French literature, American muckraking, and ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore

... know that the road to theoretical insight into beauty is impassable, let him travel with us and see; or, if not with us, alone by himself or with some one wiser than we as guide; let him compare fairly and sympathetically the results of theoretical analysis and construction with the data of his firsthand experience and observe whether the one is or is not adequate to ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... origin in a home situation. In these days of apartment dwelling and the crowding together of many families, a child must be very inattentive indeed not to have gathered through conversation and observation much firsthand knowledge of the adult sexual relationship. Children should, of course, be aware of the love of their fathers and mothers for each other as well as for themselves, but love-making in its final forms is baffling and disturbing to their emotional natures, and ...
— The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book • Various



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