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Definition of Maimings
1. maiming [n] - See also: maiming
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maimings
Literary usage of Maimings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology Against Terrorism: The Federal Effort (1992)
"... Hijackings maimings \ 1980-1989 1970-1979 Bombings Facility Hijackings
Kidnappings maimings Assassinations Attacks SOURCE: US Department of State, 1990. ..."
2. The Statutes: Revised Edition by Great Britain (1872)
"... authority to enquire, hear, try, examine and determine by the oaths of British
subjects all treasons, murders, piracies, robberies, felonies, maimings, ..."
3. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1875)
"There remain maimings, wounding, and the like, which admit of a similar division
into voluntary and involuntary. About this class of actions the preamble ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"The punishments of flogging, and cutting off the gristle of the ear, and similar
maimings, were gentle corrections in. times when the penalty for petty ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"There were no pistols, no knives, no maimings, no deaths, as in the period
subsequent, say, to the year 1850, when the decline of the Department began. III. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... if those vindictive furies, with your connivance, are always to rage with
bonds, scourgings, tortures, maimings, and burnings — we indeed, ..."
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