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Definition of Defalcators
1. defalcator [n] - See also: defalcator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defalcators
Literary usage of Defalcators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1876)
"... Expedition,* Zanzibar defalcators, a few Omani, and the elect of Uganda.
Behind his throne, an arm-chair of native manufacture, the royal shield-bearers ..."
2. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"On the 17th of January, 1838, the United States treasurer reported to Congress
sixty-three defalcators (individuals), in all to the amount of upwards of a ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and did prove really a terror to evil-doers of various kinds, especially to
prevaricators, defalcators, imaginary workers, and slippery unjust persons: ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... and did prove really a terror to evil-doers of various kinds, especially to
prevaricators, defalcators, imaginary workers, and slippery unjust persons ..."
5. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... and did prove really a terror to evil-doers of various kinds, especially to
prevaricators, defalcators, imaginary workers, and slippery unjust persons ..."
6. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving (1893)
"... their religious instruction, and the greatest leniency shown in collecting
the tributes imposed upon them, with all possible indulgence to defalcators. ..."
7. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"Honest men are left, after all the vulgar criminals have been arraigned, and the
genteel defalcators have been suffered to abscond—a hundred to one. ..."
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