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Definition of Behests
1. behest [n] - See also: behest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behests
Literary usage of Behests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Logic by Charles Arthur Mercier (1912)
"Whether these laws are laws of Nature that we are compelled by the constitution
of our minds to observe, or whether they are behests that we ought to ..."
2. Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome by James Muirhead, Henry Goudy (1899)
"... was no longer distinguishable from jus; while it may be that others of its
behests, once pontifical punishments for their contravention had gone into ..."
3. An Excursion to California Over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great by William Kelly (1851)
"... Italy—Its unique Advantages and favourable Geographical Position —Some of
Colonel Fremont's Opinions combated—The Influences of high behests on Authors. ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"They wheel beneath this star ; Where sheltered from the ken of wandering angels,
They, in empty silence, hear Hell's last behests. Great is their voyage, ..."
5. The Three Powers of Government by Joel Parker (1869)
"... leaders see fit to devise ; and the impeachment which is threatened, is in
fact based substantially upon his failure to follow the behests of the party. ..."
6. Co-operative Credit for the United States by Henry William Wolff (1917)
"... that is, the man who as a subordinate officer carries out the behests of the
Committee, keeps the books, pays out the cash and receives it in its turn. ..."
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