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Definition of Ensnaring
1. ensnare [v] - See also: ensnare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensnaring
Literary usage of Ensnaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"An article drifted through American newspapers which detailed the ensnaring of
a living mouse by a Kentucky spider. I was fortunately abl trace the story to ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Anyhow, Godwin stuck to it for a time, and resisted the ensnaring arguments of
Arians and Arminians. A glimpse of the social stratum which enjoyed such ..."
3. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... upon them by partial affection, or the workings of resentment, proved extremely
ensnaring to the subjects, that crime was, by 1703, c. ..."
4. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"... is named in the work to which I allude, as having been an accomplice in the
act of ensnaring, and carrying her off to the Russian Admiral's ship. ..."
5. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1864)
"At their head was Satan himself, whose delight it was to appear in person,
ensnaring or terrifying every one he met.1* With this object, he assumed various ..."
6. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"Pharisaic craft had reckoned on ensnaring Christ, and lowering him in the eyes
of the people, by exhibiting him as either harsh, or disregarding the law. ..."
7. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1853)
"In his L'Uomo Libero, ossia Ragiona- mento sulla Liberta Naturale e Civile dell'
Uomo, he ably combats Rousseau's theory, put forward by that ensnaring ..."
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