Definition of Surprisals

1. Noun. (plural of surprisal) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Surprisals

1. surprisal [n] - See also: surprisal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surprisals

surplusage
surplusages
surplused
surpluses
surplusing
surplussed
surplusses
surplussing
surprint
surprinted
surprinting
surprints
surpris'd
surprisable
surprisal
surprisals (current term)
surprise
surprise attack
surprise party
surprise surprise
surprised
surprisedly
surpriser
surprisers
surprises
surprising
surprisingly
surprisingness
surprize

Literary usage of Surprisals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"Yea, and though there be never so many instances of merciful surprisals, preventive of all our own consideration and care, yet those are still to be ..."

2. The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt: Sometime One of the Judges of the Court by Michael Dodson, John Disney (1811)
"... rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and counterpart, surprisals, and all other losses which had or should come to the damage of the said ship, ..."

3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Or, what may we do, that we may betake ourselves unto it for our relief in our surprisals and distresses? I answer, first, The first way is, by faith to get ..."

4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The sum of this part of the reply is, that what Paul speaks is true, of the ordinary course of believers, but not of extraordinary surprisals; this seems, ..."

5. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"Yea, and though there be never so many instances of merciful surprisals, preventive of all our own consideration and care, yet those are still to be ..."

6. The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt: Sometime One of the Judges of the Court by Michael Dodson, John Disney (1811)
"... rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and counterpart, surprisals, and all other losses which had or should come to the damage of the said ship, ..."

7. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Or, what may we do, that we may betake ourselves unto it for our relief in our surprisals and distresses? I answer, first, The first way is, by faith to get ..."

8. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"... extraordinary surprisals; this seems, I say, to be the tendency of it, though the direct sense of the whole is not so obvious to me: by that expression, ..."

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