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Definition of Inflicts
1. inflict [v] - See also: inflict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflicts
Literary usage of Inflicts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"... pay for himself if he escaped and was subsequently apprehended.2 The difference
between an injury which a person inflicts deliberately, in cold blood, ..."
2. The Law Chronicle: A Monthly Journal (1855)
"63). On the above principle, it has been held in the case of simony that although
the statute of Eliz. c. 6, only inflicts a penalty by way of forfeiture, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"... and in any engineer violating its provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction inflicts upon him the punishment of a fine not less ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"... occupying the dual position of public officer and servant of a carrier of
passengers, acted in a transaction in which he inflicts wrong and injury upon ..."
5. The Law of Collateral Attack on Judicial Proceedings by John McKee Van Fleet (1892)
"Appellate court inflicts punishment beyond the power of the inferior court. 737.
Place of imprisonment, wrong. 738. Punishment excessive, or wrong in kind. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... or taking a fiendish delight in, the suffering he inflicts, till clasping the
hand of the statue he finds himself consumed by an invisible fire within. ..."
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