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Definition of Briguing
1. canvassing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Briguing
Literary usage of Briguing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon by James Spedding (1881)
"... of the packing or briguing of a parliament." 6thly, all risk of an unkind or
undignified parting. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Coblentz is become a small extra-national Versailles; a Versailles in partibus :
briguing, intriguing, favoritism, ..."
3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... and without alliances, our posts mean and precarious, so that I profess I
don't think any one post of the kingdom worth the briguing after, save that of ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"Coblentz is become a small extra-national Versailles ; a Versailles in partibus;
briguing, intriguing, favouritism, ..."
5. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1838)
"... is become a small extra-national Versailles; a Versailles in partibus :
briguing, intriguing, favoritism, ..."
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