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Definition of Refused
1. refuse [v] - See also: refuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refused
Literary usage of Refused
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"The master of the post-house refused to supply him with horses, as Frederick had
no passport. Finally, he hired an open carriage — the same one in which ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"She refused the proposal, returned to England, 5 June, and the next day entered
... She was refused admission to Westminster Abbey on the . occasion of the ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When Rhode Island refused to adopt the national Constitution, he did more than
any other man toward securing the final reversal of that opposition. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"He again resided at Winchester, and, perhaps in the summer of 1683, when the
court was about to visit the city, refused to allow the royal harbinger to ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"But, if Jovian presumed to solicit those equitable terms, they were sternly
refused by the haughty tyrant of the East, whose clemency had pardoned the ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1847)
"DAVENPORT Motion refused with costs. DAVENPORT. Exparte The Marquis of HERTFORD,
In the Matter Juiy 13. of the Stat. 5 Viet. c. 5. ..."
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