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Definition of Ploys
1. ploy [v] - See also: ploy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ploys
Literary usage of Ploys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"ploys on similar occasions ; namely, to mark the ape of Saul »t the commencement
of his reign, and the number of years during which he reigned over .Israel. ..."
2. The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary : Containing ...by Richard Brookes by Richard Brookes (1801)
"T.ploys a number of brigs and (loops, !". in carrying ore from Cornwall, тат
Wales, and corn from ..."
3. The Mysteries of the Court of London by George William MacArthur Reynolds (1864)
"... em- 8Э ploys people to administer narcotic drugs to innocent young ladies, in
order that he may have an opportunity of ravishing and deflowering them. ..."
4. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres by Hugh Blair (1817)
"Not only so ; but -voice ivas transferred to sig- ploys, in ils i>luce, the name
of the accessory or correspondent idea ; although the principal have a ..."
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