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Definition of Disclamations
1. disclamation [n] - See also: disclamation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disclamations
Literary usage of Disclamations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by House of Lords, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1855)
"And what appears to me conclusive upon this point, and to stamp his disclamations
of the pursuer with an irresistible air of truth, is what he said to Mrs ..."
2. The Christian Examiner (1837)
"With these reasonable disclamations then, we come to the simple and unprejudiced
experience of facts. We see an order in nature, not mechanical, ..."
3. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"and, without attending to the disclamations of the English ambassador, proceeded,—"
We have been at war for fifteen years—you are determined on hostility ..."
4. Waverley by Walter Scott (1870)
"... he uniformly expressed himself, I knew his opinion was entirely formed, and
that any disclamations of mine would only have savoured of affectation. ..."
5. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... but perhaps it may be now said without offence, that the many disclamations
of personal hostility, and the anxious professions of disinterested zeal for ..."
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