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Definition of Defalcated
1. defalcate [v] - See also: defalcate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defalcated
Literary usage of Defalcated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice by Jeremy Bentham (1827)
"When all are defalcated which the purpose here in question requires to be
defalcated, there seems no determinate ground for any such apprehension as that ..."
2. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"... together with the fact that the plaintiff had without sufficient cause compelled
her to separate herself from him, he might have defalcated the price ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... for the very Triumvirate has defalcated, are shrieking hoarse ; drowned in
Constitutional clamor. But the debate and arguing of a whole Nation; ..."
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