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Definition of Procurers
1. procurer [n] - See also: procurer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Procurers
Literary usage of Procurers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Commission for the Investigation of the White Slave Traffic by Walter Elmore Fernald (1914)
"The commission has definite information, including names and addresses, of many
men who are procurers of women and girls for the business of commercialized ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"... his aiders, procurers, or abettors, immediately and forthwith after the offence
committed, shall be apprehended by any constable or churchwarden of the ..."
3. A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls Into by Dorothy Q. Thomas, Sidney Jones (1993)
"B. NON-ARREST OF TRAFFICKERS, PIMPS, procurers, BROTHEL OWNERS AND CLIENTS This
pattern of impunity also applies to brothel owners, pimps and recruiters ..."
4. Raising the Veil by Ball Fenner (1856)
"... of an Irish Witness—The Comical Negro Witness— Penalties for Perjury—Loafers
and procurers for Brothels who are hangers on in the Court Rooms, &e. ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"... as containing ' many foul passages to the vilifying of our religion and exacting
of popery, for which he and his lady, as principal procurers, ..."
6. The Law-dictionary, Explaining the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the ...by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, Thomas Colpitts Granger (1835)
"But by several statutes the benefit of clergy was taken away from murderers
through malice prepense, their abettors, procurers, and counsellors. ..."
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