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Definition of Ensnarers
1. ensnarer [n] - See also: ensnarer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ensnarers
Literary usage of Ensnarers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons on Various Subjects of Christian Doctrine and Duty by Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide (1850)
"How fast do such ensnarers increase everywhere, and in this place in particular.
... This is the awful fate that all ensnarers have reason to fear. 3. ..."
2. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1863)
"... signified such ensnarers; with these also it was given me to discourse, and
they wondered at any one having conscience, and were in total ignorance what ..."
3. The Rambler: In Three Volumes by Samuel Johnson (1823)
"... because I regard them as providing a security against the most dangerous
ensnarers of the soul, by enabling themselves to exclude idleness from their ..."
4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"He cared for the ungrateful; He yielded to His ensnarers. This were a small
matter, if He had not had in His company even His own betrayer, and stedfastly ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"1873 was but an indifferent season for its ensnarers. In the week ending August
30 three were taken, weighing respectively 4£ Ib., 2 Ib. 10 oz., ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"... and, above all, French spies or odious ensnarers. In the great year 1812, I
was sent on a political mission, at the Russian expense, through Bohemia, ..."
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