Definition of Decamping

1. Verb. (present participle of decamp) ¹

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Definition of Decamping

1. decamp [v] - See also: decamp

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decamping

decamers
decameter
decameters
decamethonium
decamethonium bromide
decamethonium compounds
decamethoniums
decamethylcyclopentasiloxane
decamethyltetrasiloxane
decametre
decametres
decametric
decamine
decamp
decamped
decamping (current term)
decampment
decampments
decamps
decan
decanal
decandria
decandrous
decane
decanedioic acid
decanes
decanethiol
decanethiols
decangular
decani

Literary usage of Decamping

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

1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"say also that the Irish army is decamping, and marching into winter quarters, and doe suppose that ours will quickly doe so too. ..."

2. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"decamping from Carthage, took up a position not far from Utica and the Roman works. Their arrival produced, however, this effect, that Scipio, ..."

3. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"decamping without Beat of Drum. — Les Convenances. — A Transformation.— Rallying Round the Charter. — Epigrams and Chansons. ..."

4. Land, Labour, and Gold: Or, Two Years in Victoria with Visits to Sydney and by William Howitt (1858)
"decamping with loaded Bullock Drays. — A Fortune out of an old Bucket. —Visit to Fenton's Station. — 800/. a-Year out of surplus Cabbages. ..."

5. London Society edited by James Hogg, Florence Marryat (1878)
"... for he is decamping in double- quick time.' 'Does this queer fellow—I mean the hydrous—ever get any wings ? ' Of course he does, ..."

6. The Life-story of Charlotte de la Trémoille, Countess of Derby by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1905)
"decamping. VICTORY ! AND PRINCE RUPERT'S HOMAGE THAT Lord Fairfax was reluctant to attack Lathom House is very certain, whatever his reasons may have been. ..."

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