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Definition of Decreers
1. decreer [n] - See also: decreer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decreers
Literary usage of Decreers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principle in Art, Etc by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)
"But, as no such academy could exist, or, if it existed, could make its decrees
prevail with those who are the decreers of statues, how does the matter stand ..."
2. Principle in Art, Etc by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1907)
"But, as no such academy could exist, or, if it existed, could make its decrees
prevail with those who are the decreers of statues, how does the matter stand ..."
3. History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors: With a Sketch of the by Henry Coppée (1881)
"... masters of all or part of the territories lying beyond them, . . . which His
immutable decrees have already allotted us; for He is the best of decreers. ..."
4. The Morning Watch: Or Quarterly Journal on Prophecy and Theological Review. by Ellerton and Henderson (1833)
"... and it shall not go unpunished: the " decreers of unrighteous decrees," the
General Assemblies and Presbyteries that have cast out the people of God ..."
5. Historical Sketches of Notable Persons and Events in the Reigns of James I by Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1898)
"... my food-monopolists, my prosperous scums of creation,—decreers of injustice
by a law,—shaken out from his Longacre respectability, and shown as what he ..."
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