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Definition of Perpetrations
1. perpetration [n] - See also: perpetration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perpetrations
Literary usage of Perpetrations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of the Right Honorable Charles James Fox...: Comprehending a Brief by Charles James Fox (1807)
"... had no immediate relation with its leaders, but" were the perpetrations of
common thieves, who availed themselves of the tumuli to their own advantage; ..."
2. Messiah by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Georg Heinrich C. Egestorff (1826)
"... Of bis innumerable perpetrations; ilu-» This barbarous man, be knoweth that
the Romans, When once he had completed bis designs Of faction and revolt, ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"13, Confide recte agenti, are two of those abominable perpetrations often ...
21, is another of the atrocious classic perpetrations of which the less that ..."
4. Reports of Cases Decided at Nisi Prius and at the Crown Side on Circuit by Thomas Campbell Foster, William Francis Finlason (1867)
"Bridge was going on to ask as to subsequent perpetrations of the offence, on the
Saturday and again on the Monday. Ribton objected that it was inadmissible, ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"Perpetrations wise and otherwise. Bost., MH Brazier, 'nc 59 p. por. 12°, $1.
Burns, Cumorah Smith. A child of love. Bost., Sherman, French, 'il. c. 80 p. ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1875)
"improvement upon some of those religious perpetrations which I have noticed
further back. In other places we spell out such agreeable truisms as " Gerste ..."
7. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"I do not find any of these definitions confine the offence to wilful and malicious
perpetrations of it. 22. 23. Car. 2.0. i. called the Coventry act, ..."
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