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Definition of Damnifies
1. damnify [v] - See also: damnify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damnifies
Literary usage of Damnifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825)
"Cato (saith he) judgeth profoundly, but in the mean time damnifies the state,
for he speaks as in the commonwealth of Plato and not as in the dregs of ..."
2. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1895)
"... provided he (thereby) noe wayes damnifies ye Common high way of ye Towne, wch
our Towne Surveyr: is to see vnto in ye Laying out. voted. ..."
3. Reports of Scotch Appeals in the House of Lords A. D. 1851 to 1873: With by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1895)
"... the remedy of parties who have been injured by the tortious proceedings of a
deceased party, if that proceeding pecuniarily damnifies—as they call it, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"If 'the wet or rain lodge on' a branch, it 'usually damnifies the next bud.'—p.
133. See Hal.] Darnel, Cockle-weed, injurious to corn. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by James William Mylne, Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Leach (1834)
"The Courts feel the severe pressure of the rule, and, from motives of tenderness
towards the interests which the rule damnifies, they make exceptions in ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"Reckless reduction, carried out with great individual suffering, is a thing which
injures the whole of the public service, and damnifies it for a generation ..."
7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1836)
"The first breach does not explain how the acceptance of the lease, on the terms
and in the form there described, damnifies the ..."
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