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Definition of Extirping
1. extirp [v] - See also: extirp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extirping
Literary usage of Extirping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reading Upon the Statute of Uses of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon, William Henry Rowe (1806)
"... recoveries, and other like assurances to uses, confidences, and trusts, goes
on to say, that for the extirping and extinguishment of all such subtle ..."
2. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens (1906)
"... and the total extirping and destruction of vice and sin, having knowledge that
the premises be true, as well by the accounts of his late visitations, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1895)
"... advancement, and exaltation of true doctrine and virtue in the said Church,
to the only glory and honour of God, and the total extirping and destruction ..."
4. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1862)
"... advancement, and exaltation of true doctrine and virtue in the said Church,
to the only glory of God, and the total extirping and destruction of vice ..."
5. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... or judicial) a mischievous absurdity of the old Law has been cured by a
mischievous remedy. Instead of extirping pernicious rules and distinctions, ..."
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