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Definition of Depredations
1. depredation [n] - See also: depredation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Depredations
Literary usage of Depredations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selections from the Economic History of the United States, 1765-1860: With by Guy Stevens Callender (1909)
"These depredations commenced, under the French decree of May gth, 1793, and others
which followed, and under the British order of the 8th of June, 1793, ..."
2. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"Forms of defense against nomad depredations. Tuaregs of the Sahara. ...
Ancient Carthage constructed a ditch to check the depredations of the nomads of ..."
3. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple, Friedrich Ratzel (1911)
"Forms of defense against nomad depredations. Tuaregs of the Sahara. They collected
tribute in the form of grain, salt, garments, horses and gold, ..."
4. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi: By by John Wesley Monette (1848)
"Object and Extent of these Depredations.—The Continuance of them provokes Invasion
of the Indian ... Depredations and Murders on the Ohio from 1788 to ..."
5. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). State Historian (1900)
"Depredations of the Tories—Fears for the Safety of the ... The depredations
committed by the Tories is of t] worst of Consequences, as it effectually ..."
6. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being by George Chalmers (1845)
"Troops and Zeal to avenge Spanish Depredations. — Commendable Acts of the House
of Burgesses.—They borrow Money instead of issuing Paper. ..."
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