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Definition of Mongering
1. monger [v] - See also: monger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mongering
Literary usage of Mongering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... fell-mongering and wool scouring afford the largest amount of employment among
the industries in class 1, and this can be readily understood, ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... mongering boys That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander WALTER RALEIGH:
Shakespeare. Claudius, King of Denmark, in Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, ..."
3. A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering: From the Stuarts to by Joseph Grego (1892)
"The evils which disfigured constituencies in the borough- mongering days are
pictorially set forth by George Cruikshank, under date April 28, 1820, ..."
4. Thirty Years, Anglo-French Reminiscences (1876-1906) by Thomas Barclay (1914)
"CHAPTER VI A TARIFF-Mongering ERA THE Treaty of Commerce negotiations in 1877
broke down. Those in 1881 conducted by my late friends Sir Charles Dilke and ..."
5. Papers and Addresses by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1895)
"... Resolution—His Declaration against Tariff-mongering—Discussion—Result of
Voting— ' Commercial Union' condemned—Extract from Speech at Canadian Dinner on ..."
6. The Dawn of Radicalism by John Bowles Daly (1892)
"Prerogative—A Game of Whist—Lord Bute—A Royal Scandal—Struggle between Crown and
Aristocracy—The Party of the People—Bute's Policy—Borough-mongering—Origin ..."
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