Definition of Hirelings

1. Noun. (plural of hireling) ¹

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Definition of Hirelings

1. hireling [n] - See also: hireling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirelings

hire out
hire purchase
hire purchases
hireable
hireage
hireages
hired
hired gun
hired hand
hired help
hired man
hiree
hirees
hireless
hireling
hirelings (current term)
hirer
hirers
hires
hiring
hiring freeze
hiring hall
hirings
hirling
hirlings
hirn
hirola
hirple
hirpled
hirples

Literary usage of Hirelings

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

1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, Philip Schaff, John Chrysostom (1888)
"But give heed to the fact that even the hirelings are needful. ... Hearken to the hirelings as pointed out by the Lord Himself: " The scribes," He saith, ..."

2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... ruffians, hirelings, slaves, Black hearts and bloody hands ! Our country will refuse its graves To your polluted bands. The carrion vulture in his ..."

3. William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Seventy Years of Social and by Thomas Archer (1903)
"... they had become literally children, and Rigby and his brother hirelings were the nurses that frightened them with hideous fables and ugly words. ..."

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