2. Verb. Third-person singular simple present of counsel. ¹
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Definition of Counsels
1. counsel [v] - See also: counsel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counsels
Literary usage of Counsels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1899)
"THE counsels OF THE GREAT Yi). OF the six classes of documents in the ShQ, '
counsels' are the second, containing the wise remarks and suggestions of high ..."
2. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Of the second batch of counsels which Don Quixote gave to Sancho Panza. ...
But in this matter of the second counsels he gave Sancho he showed himself to ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"Independently of all counsels the other evil they breed, divided counsels have
a the rejec- perilous tendency to result in the adoption of the vigorous ..."
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