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Definition of Hegiras
1. hegira [n] - See also: hegira
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hegiras
Literary usage of Hegiras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Washington Irving by Washington Irving (1861)
"Ho derived much respect among zealous Moslems for having married two of the
prophet's daughters; and for having been in both of the hegiras, or flights, ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1896)
"He derived much respect among zealous Moslems for having married two of the
prophet's daughters ; and for having been in both of the hegiras, or flights, ..."
3. England: With Sketches of Society in the Metropolis by James Fenimore Cooper (1837)
"We are at no great distance from the first, and I have several times witnessed
the hegiras of the happy pairs. They take their departure from the ..."
4. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"Not far from two million square miles of territory une penetrated and occupied
as a direct or indirect result of the overland hegiras that took place in ..."
5. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1894)
"... Cincinnati, Memphis, Louisville, and again at Cincinnati, signalizing his
sojourns and hastening his hegiras in the usual way ; and in 1868 he returned ..."
6. National Development, 1877-1885 by Edwin Erle Sparks (1907)
"By their systematic solicitation of converts in all countries, the Mormons peopled
the territory with a regularity in strong contrast to the hegiras which ..."
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