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Definition of Ceding back
1. Noun. The act of ceding back.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceding Back
Literary usage of Ceding back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Purchase of Florida: Its History and Diplomacy by Hubert Bruce Fuller (1906)
"... in question Spain might not unfairly be considered as ceding back to France
what France had ceded to her; inasmuch as the cession of it to Great Britain ..."
2. A Short History of the Near East: From the Founding of Constantinople (330 A by William Stearns Davis (1922)
"... to buy a peace by ceding back Azov and by renouncing for the nonce all his
threats against the Sultan. But such a repulse merely implied that the ..."
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