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Definition of Aggresses
1. aggress [v] - See also: aggress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggresses
Literary usage of Aggresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on Ingersoll by Louis Aloisius Lambert (1883)
"Now society aggresses on your natural rights for the common good. ... To meet
the expenses the tax collector aggresses on you." You feel that the demand is ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"No man is more wide awake than he who loves his own fireside, his own wife, and
his own child, and aggresses on nobody, but determines as far as God gives ..."
3. Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Fish (1905)
"... one aggresses, the other retaliates. Already a few in the North defy all
constitutional restraints, resist the execution of the fugitive- j ..."
4. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"So the capitalist class not only defends itself, but aggresses at a time when
aggression is madness. This is why the position of social-minded persons ..."
5. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"... between them. be assisting to each other in their military aggresses upon,
others, and makes the enemies of one in effect the common enemies of both. 2. ..."
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