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Definition of Esquiring
1. esquire [v] - See also: esquire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Esquiring
Literary usage of Esquiring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert (1907)
"ment that the fee be paid as a con- This was held not to include sums dition of
filing a claim at all —by re- paid to satisfy fixed liens on real esquiring ..."
2. The Physiology of New York Boarding-houses by Thomas Butler Gunn (1857)
"Wo remember an instance in which a husband's feol- ings were so wrought upon by
the fact of a boarder's esquiring his wifo from a party—which ho himself had ..."
3. Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters. by William Hazlitt (1819)
"... and Esquiring himself, like the ladies in the Beggar's Opera, who express the
height of their rankling envy and dislike, by calling each other—Madam. ..."
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