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Definition of Disinterring
1. disinter [v] - See also: disinter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinterring
Literary usage of Disinterring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The 'mean ' revenge,' taken by the Restoration in disinterring ' the bodies ' of
all such as had been unwarrantably buried in Henry VII. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"Nay, they must have been very lofty philosophers, indeed, who did not rejoice in
the disinterring of Pepys's Diary—the work of a vain, silly, ..."
3. Thucydides Translated Into English by Thucydides, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"strife by the help of the opposite faction, expelling the I. living and disinterring
and casting forth the bones of the dead *. Nevertheless they afterwards ..."
4. The Standard Library Cyclopaedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical (1853)
"Unlawfully disinterring dead bodies. 72. Buying or selling wives. 74. Maliciously
exposing persons labouring under contagious diseases in places of public ..."
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