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Definition of Breaking off
1. Noun. An instance of sudden interruption.
Definition of Breaking off
1. Verb. (present participle of break off) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breaking Off
Literary usage of Breaking off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"They consist of glass drops with long anil slender tails, which burst to pieces
on the breaking off those toils in any part. The invention is thus alluded ..."
2. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1839)
"been punished for breaking off the treaty of " Oxford, when they might have had
better terms " than now they could expect; and if they omitted " this ..."
3. Travels Through the Interior Parts of America: In a Series of Letters by Thomas Anburey (1789)
"... a further account of this province muft be delayed till my next; and in hopes
you will pardon my breaking off fo abruptly, and leaving you in a Hate of ..."
4. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"... who have given that to me as the reason of their not breaking off publicly
from them, but to continue to preach as formerly among them, that they may ..."
5. Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War by James Brown Scott (1916)
"... Porte that it can take the choice between an immediate breaking off of relations
with us, or the immediate removal from Turkey of all German officers, ..."
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