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Definition of Aspersing
1. asperse [v] - See also: asperse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aspersing
Literary usage of Aspersing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1919)
"... but the evil Key has done is not brought into this case gratuitously for the
purpose of aspersing his memory. I would leave him where he slumbers, ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and, as much as in them lay, aspersing his royal person and honour with their
own infamy ; from both which it had always been as much the care, ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"A Letter to the Freeholders and Freemen of England, aspersing the House. ...
—Aspersing the Proceedings of the House, and tending to create misapprehensions ..."
4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1810)
"A Letter to the Freeholders and Freemen of England, aspersing the House. ...
—Aspersing the Proceedings of the House, and tending ta create misapprehensions ..."
5. The History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II.: With a Preliminary by Thomas Leland (1814)
"He absolutely denied the charge of aspersing the [ate king; be called on the
queen-mother to attest; that his intercourse with the rebels was by the late ..."
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