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Definition of Militating
1. militate [v] - See also: militate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Militating
Literary usage of Militating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... which prove the possibility of effects almost as strange, but not, like these,
militating against the fundamental laws of botanical science. ..."
2. The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author by Laurence Sterne (1813)
"... in the character of my uncle Toby,—of characterizing the militating spirits
of my country ;— the wound upon his groin is a wound to every comparison of ..."
3. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"But of this fearful union of all persecuting elements, the most calamitous result,
as affecting the present condition of the just militating in the Church ..."
4. A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett: Selected and by William Leggett, Theodore Sedgwick (1840)
"... for dissolving the Union, not when any measure, militating against "the domestic
institutions of the south," is effected ; but whenever it is proposed. ..."
5. Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia by Georgia (1843)
"And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of
laws militating against this act, are hereby repealed. ..."
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