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Definition of Deputations
1. deputation [n] - See also: deputation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deputations
Literary usage of Deputations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paris in 1789-94: Farewell Letters of Victims of the Guillotine by John Goldworth Alger (1902)
"These deputations, indeed, represent the entire gamut of human emotion. Laughter and
tears, comedy and tragedy, buffoonery and pathos, rapture and anguish, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Each of these four sub-committees or deputations was to consist of ... The afternoons
were reserved for the sessions of the deputations or sub-committees. ..."
3. The History of the Church Missionary Society: Its Environment, Its Men and by Eugene Stock (1899)
"There is no more reason for requiring " deputations " to plead the cause of
Missions than to require them to expound the Fifth Commandment. to"r<afi°ej<:ct ..."
4. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... to son/the duties and the simple arts of a pious and war- far ino: life.
o CHAPTER XL. the people of the neighboring district came to see deputations . ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1896)
"... Day Celebrations—Mr. Balfour at Glasgow—Lord Salisbury at Brighton—Voluntary
Schools—deputations to Prime Minister and Duke of ..."
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