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Definition of Suggesting

1. suggest [v] - See also: suggest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suggesting

Literary usage of Suggesting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"BILL by heir, suggesting a secret, void .trust for charity in residuary devisees, but without evidence of a trust expressed, or of an engagement, ..."

2. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1837)
"If, therefore, I refrain from suggesting to Congress any specific plan for regulating the exchanges of the country, relieving mercantile embarrassments, ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... during which he had an opportunity of witnessing the battle of Ushant on 27 July, as well as of suggesting some improvements in the steering gear, ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... his columns and on the pedestals* designs of "the ari debased rococo type, with additional plates suggesting their arrc-ij- tion to various buildings. ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"... and on suggesting to the court that the answers were false, and that the Corporation was indebted to the city in larger sums than stated in the answers, ..."

6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"... have escaped the attention of our verse-writers: but we have discharged our duty by suggesting it to their reflection ; and they may now either adopt or ..."

7. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1915)
"OBSERVATIONS Suggesting THAT CONTRACTIONS CAUSE HUNGER The research, previously mentioned, on the rhythmic sounds produced by the digestive process, ..."

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