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Definition of Deposing
1. depose [v] - See also: depose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deposing
Literary usage of Deposing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Infallibility of the Church: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the by George Salmon (1890)
"And •so we are told that we ought to be ashamed of the outcry we have raised
against the exercise of the deposing power by the mediaeval popes, ..."
2. Rome and the Newest Fashions in Religion: Three Tracts by William Ewart Gladstone (1875)
"The deposing Power. 2. The Use of Force. IT will perhaps have been observed by
others, as it has been by me, that from the charges against my account of the ..."
3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"Power of deposing the King. Instances in North- humber- land; in Wessex. ...
the Witan of the land did possess the right of deposing the sovereign, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall (1900)
"A person is not guilty in joining a rebellion, if it is necessary to save his
life.20* (/) Crew deposing Hosier.—The crew of a vessel are not guilty of a ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The synod ended by deposing St. Chrysostom, having cited him four times to no
purpose; when he was immediately expelled the city by the emperor, ..."
6. The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political by William Ewart Gladstone (1874)
"The deposing Power. 2. The Use of Force. IT will perhaps have been observed by
others, as it has been by me, that from the charges against my account of the ..."
7. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"He is conn- Bel for the defendants in the prosecution for deposing Lord I'igot.
CHAPTER XLII. CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LOED KENYON TILL HE WAS ..."
8. An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain by Jeremy Collier (1840)
"Besides their putting their seals to this charter, the English prelates complied
still farther with the rest of the council, and signed the deposing bull ..."
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