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Definition of Imperilling
1. imperil [v] - See also: imperil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperilling
Literary usage of Imperilling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Co-operative Credit for the United States by Henry William Wolff (1917)
"there should be faults really imperilling the bank, the report may be discussed
in the common interest at the District or the General Congress. ..."
2. An American Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat by Burton Alexander Randall, George Edmund DeSchweinitz (1901)
"Each will learn the position most satisfactory to himself, and habitually adopt
it, but a constrained pose is to be deprecated as imperilling accuracy and ..."
3. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1885)
"Much more justified was the ridicule poured on the inconsistency of the compromise
party, whose real political capital was always the imperilling of the ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"The oriental complication had also advanced so far that the war in Germany could
not be continued without imperilling Austria. It was under this pressure ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1867)
"If one of these elements be strained beyond all due and reasonable limits, a
reaction is certain to follow, imperilling the very truth which it is sought to ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"The oriental complication had also advanced so far that the war in Germany could
not be continued without imperilling Austria. It was under this pressure ..."
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