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Definition of Threatens
1. threaten [v] - See also: threaten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threatens
Literary usage of Threatens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND DANGERS WITH WHICH
ITS PRESENCE threatens THE WHITES Why it is more difficult to abolish slavery ..."
2. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1848)
"... AND DAN- OERS WITH WHICH ITS PRESENCE threatens THE WHITES. Why it is more
difficult to abolish Slavery, and to efface all Vestiges of it among the ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, John Canfield Spencer (1841)
"SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND DAN- GEKS WITH WHICH
ITS PRESENCE threatens THE WHITES. Why it is more difficult to abolish ..."
4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1864)
"SITUATION OF THE BLACK POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, AND DANGERS WITH WHICH
ITS PRESENCE threatens THE WHITES. Why it is more difficult to ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"The fierceness of his temper was exasperated by cruel superstition ; and and
threatens ^ was universally believed that he had bound him- Bome. seif by a ..."
6. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"... these scruples — Anne Boleyn — Henry applies to the pope for a divorce — The
pope favourable — The emperor threatens him — The pope's ambiguous conduct ..."
7. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume (1789)
"... Anne Boleyn • Henry applies to the pope for a divorce The pope -favourable—Vbe
emperor threatens him The pope's ambiguous ..."
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