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Definition of Molestations
1. molestation [n] - See also: molestation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Molestations
Literary usage of Molestations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"... and as affording immunity from the molestations of civilized man. Vague and
uncertain claims to several portions of the territory, were asserted by as ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1807)
"... or, if from the inveteracy of long continued habits he find that impossible,
let him confine his molestations against the peace of the reading world, ..."
3. Laconics, Or The Best Words of the Best Authors: Or the Best Words of the by John Timbs (1856)
"... can work upon these untractable savages; we had better at first sight betake
ourselves to our heels, and by a prudent flight avoid their molestations. ..."
4. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"... injuries and molestations so inflicted by them who shall offer and commit
them, must bee reformed and amended, after the very same forme and manner, ..."
5. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"By the molestations the Christians met with, we must needs understand the FIRST
molestations; all other being nothing to the purpose: for when persecution ..."
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