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Definition of Assassinating
1. assassinate [v] - See also: assassinate
Literary usage of Assassinating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... and was soon to have put in execution, that horrid plot of assassinating the
staff officers, blowing np the magazines and securing the passes of the ..."
2. History of the Commonwealth of England: From Its Commencement, to the by William Godwin (1828)
"BILL FOR A TAX TO BE RAISED ON THE ROYALISTS DEFEATED. PLOT FOR assassinating
CROMWEL. ... assassinating ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... that what he swore against Mr. Arnold was false, and that John Gyles (who was
convicted for assassinating Mr. Arnold) and one Thomas Watkins, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"Lord Churchill's supposed project for assassinating James the Second.—King
William's opinion of him. ..."
5. The Works of William Robertson: To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life by William Robertson (1851)
"... at another, with accounts of a plot for assassinating themselves. By these
artifices, they kept his mind, which was naturally violent, ..."
6. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"assassinating the Duke. — Royal Visits, Balls and Files. — Alexander's Parting
Counsel.—• The Due de Berry Assassinated. — The Anteroom of the Opera-house. ..."
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