Definition of Disinterring

1. Verb. (present participle of disinter) ¹

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Definition of Disinterring

1. disinter [v] - See also: disinter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinterring

disinterested
disinterestedly
disinterestedness
disinteresting
disinterests
disintering
disintermediary
disintermediate
disintermediated
disintermediates
disintermediating
disintermediation
disinterment
disinterments
disinterred
disinterring (current term)
disinters
disinthral
disinthrall
disinthralled
disinthralling
disinthrallment
disinthralls
disinthrals
disintoxicate
disintoxicated
disintoxicates
disintoxicating
disintoxication
disintricate

Literary usage of Disinterring

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

1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The 'mean ' revenge,' taken by the Restoration in disinterring ' the bodies ' of all such as had been unwarrantably buried in Henry VII. ..."

2. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"Nay, they must have been very lofty philosophers, indeed, who did not rejoice in the disinterring of Pepys's Diary—the work of a vain, silly, ..."

3. Thucydides Translated Into English by Thucydides, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"strife by the help of the opposite faction, expelling the I. living and disinterring and casting forth the bones of the dead *. Nevertheless they afterwards ..."

4. The Standard Library Cyclopaedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical (1853)
"Unlawfully disinterring dead bodies. 72. Buying or selling wives. 74. Maliciously exposing persons labouring under contagious diseases in places of public ..."

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