Definition of Poniarding

1. Verb. (present participle of poniard) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Poniarding

1. poniard [v] - See also: poniard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poniarding

ponghees
pongid
pongidae
pongids
pongier
pongiest
ponging
pongo
pongo pygmaeus
pongoes
pongos
pongs
pongy
poniard
poniarded
poniarding (current term)
poniards
ponibility
ponied
ponied up
ponies
ponies up
ponk
ponked
ponking
ponks
pono-
ponograph
ponomarevite
ponopalmosis

Literary usage of Poniarding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"Therefore, simultaneously with Mazzini's proclamation, which is tolerably indicative of poniarding, there emanates one with the name of Kossuth appended to ..."

2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"The critic, again, is very angry with Ariosto for making Giocondo abstain from poniarding his wife because of the love he bore her. ..."

3. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"Marat repelled the disparaging imputation of clemency and common sense, and talked in his familiar vein of poniarding brigands, burning despots alive in ..."

4. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"Marat repelled the disparaging imputation of clemency and common sense, and talked in his familiar vein of poniarding brigands, burning despots alive in ..."

5. A History of the Italian Republics: Being a View of the Rise, Progress, and by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1847)
"... the prince they must obey had attained power only by betraying his friends or his fellow- citizens, by poisoning or poniarding his uncle or his brother. ..."

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