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Definition of Privateered
1. privateer [v] - See also: privateer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Privateered
Literary usage of Privateered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essex Institute Historical Collections by Essex Institute (1896)
"... on our storm-lashed coast, © © ' they pushed their trade to all the known
ports of Europe and the West Indies; how they privateered against the French ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1850)
"That intended for the siege of Quebec, sent to Lisbon instead. 5!). Old buccaneers
invited to Acadia. where they privateered with great suc<4>s~ ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"... what it amounts to, in reality, since there was never yet a prize privateered
in which some injury- was not inflicted in some way on neutral parties. ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... where they privateered with great success against the Americans, so as to
supply the colony well, and keep the savages in good humour by presents. 69. ..."
5. Memoirs of Celebrated Characters by Alphonse de Lamartine (1854)
"He then cruised and privateered in the American seas, against the Americans,
fighting for independence. He defended the island of Jamaica against the fleet ..."
6. Memoirs of Celebrated Characters by Alphonse de Lamartine (1854)
"He then cruised and privateered in the American seas, against the Americans,
fighting for independence. He defended the island of Jamaica against the fleet ..."
7. The St. James's Magazine (1871)
"He had been the old comrade with whom Masters had privateered along the American
seaboard, with whom he had escaped from prison, and entered Canada, ..."
8. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"This was a great abuse ; the work was done inefficiently, and the contractors at
times privateered on their own account, which led to reprisals on the part ..."
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