Lexicographical Neighbors of Disburdenment
Literary usage of Disburdenment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (1914)
"But Solon was the first, it would seem, to use this device, when he called his
cancelling of debts a " disburdenment." For the first of his public measures ..."
2. Adam Bede by George Eliot (1860)
"... felt a delicious sense of disburdenment, as he answered, " 1ST ay, lad, there's
no telling ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"Two features of the Buddhist Order were its fortnightly meetings and public
confession, or ' disburdenment' of sins. On the death of Buddha, five hundred of ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1842)
"To do something for those we love is a relief to the heart ; a sort of disburdenment
of its over fulness of affection. The highly intellectual may rest ..."
5. The Gospel of Buddha According to Old Records by Paul Carus (1895)
"Buddhistic Sanskrit,) literally " disburdenment." It is the Buddhist confession.
Rhys Davids says " that it almost certainly dates from ..."
6. The Gospel of Buddha by Paul Carus (1917)
"... Buddhistic Sanskrit,) literally "disburdenment." It is the Buddhist confession.
Rhys Davids says "that it almost certainly dates from the fifth century ..."
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