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Definition of Decimations
1. decimation [n] - See also: decimation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decimations
Literary usage of Decimations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Verney Family by Margaret Maria Williams-Hay Verney (1894)
"29, passed two votes this afternoone as to the Bill of decimations ; the one is
that it should not be read the second time ; the other that it should be ..."
2. Narrative of a Journey in the Morea by William Gell (1823)
"... But what good fortune could leave them alive and possessed of the power to be
useful after the decimations on decimations which, under any circumstances ..."
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