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Definition of Insnaring
1. insnare [v] - See also: insnare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insnaring
Literary usage of Insnaring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors edited by John Taylor (1839)
"Such works are like cobwebs, and their authors like spiders, who spin themselves
to skeletons, and leave their insnaring productions behind them.—Ibid. ..."
2. Short comments on every chapter of the holy Bible (1838)
"Are we willing to give up every sin, to turn from a wicked, insnaring world, and
rely only on his merits and mercy, to have him for our Prophet, Priest, ..."
3. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"... desire either wholly to pervert, or at least to divide the weak multitude by
insnaring them with their boastful pretensions; inflated with pride, ..."
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