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Definition of Emoluments
1. emolument [n] - See also: emolument
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emoluments
Literary usage of Emoluments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"And be it further enacted, That there shall be four inspectors-general of the
army, with the rank, pay. and emoluments of colonels of cavalry ; three ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"This paragraph does not require all of the emoluments or compensation of the ...
The paragraph puts Into the enumeration emoluments, and the excepting ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Court of that Territory, to recover a surplus of fees and emoluments received by
the clerk, in excess of the amount which he was entitled to retain. ..."
4. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"... than the revision of official of offlce. emoluments. Ministers once grew rich
upon the gains of office ; and provided for their relatives by monstrous ..."
5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1846)
"BRAZILIAN CONSULATE FEES, OR emoluments TO BE PAID BY VESSELS, BOTH NATIONAL AND
FOREIGN. In this Department of State for Foreign Affaire, there is to be ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In 1643 his episcopal palace was pillaged by the parliamentarian soldiers and in
a year or two he was stripped of all his emoluments. ..."
7. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1890)
"... exclusive of Continental Bounty and emoluments ; but, that there may be no
misconception or deception by the officers, or on the part of the men, ..."
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