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Definition of Capitulating
1. capitulate [v] - See also: capitulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitulating
Literary usage of Capitulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... and without the mortification of capitulating to the broken banks, by accepting
and paying out their depreciated notes as the currency of the federal ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... was capitulating; same day came letters from Bristoll, which say that a merchant
ship, arrived there from Bilboa, gives account that at their coming ..."
3. The Establishment of the Turks in Europe by John Russell Russell (1828)
"of the capitulating half were religiously preserved to the Christians by Mahomet; •
but this relation is no way entitled to credit. ..."
4. Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare, Compared ...by Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, William Shakespeare, Frederic Dan Huntington by Sir Frederick Beilby Watson, William Shakespeare, Frederic Dan Huntington (1859)
"Wo illustrate our persuasion in this respect by re* capitulating passages from
hi* works exhorting to piety and devotion ; such as,— " Let never day nor ..."
5. The Political Evolution of the Hungarian Nation by Marcus Knatchbull-Hugessen, Cecil (1908)
"... namely, that there was no alternative but to save unnecessary bloodshed by
capitulating to the Russians, from whom better terms could be expected than ..."
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