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Definition of Dooms
1. doom [v] - See also: doom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dooms
Literary usage of Dooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"THE dooms OF INE, AD 688-725. The dooms of King Ine occupy so important a position
as the earliest direct information upon Anglo- Saxon custom apart from ..."
2. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"... when Alfred's dooms were compiled, this will be the best place for a brief
statement of the legislative work of the great king. " These are the dooms ..."
3. The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest by Thomas Hodgkin (1906)
"These are the dooms which Alfred the king chose, in order that no man should deem
them otherwise than according to his will." Such is the opening sentence ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Thus by the arm of Atreus' royal Son Two children of Antenor there fulfill'd
Their bloody dooms and sank to Hades' realm. Nor ceased he ranging through the ..."
5. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1849)
"... A. THE dooms OF THE CITY OF LONDON. V. Thorpe, i. 228, gq.) "Tms is the
ordinance which the bishops and the reeves belonging to London have ordained, ..."
6. The King's Peace: A Historical Sketch of the English Law Courts by Frederick Andrew Inderwick (1895)
"I. The Common Law of England—dooms of Alfred—Of Canute— Laws of the ... We are
told that he wrote a book of his laws; and Alfred's dooms (AD 871-901) ..."
7. The Principles of Economical Philosophy by Henry Dunning Macleod (1875)
"Among the dooms of Ine, King of Wessex (688-725 AD), ... Among the dooms of Edward
the Elder, sou of Alfred <901-924, AD), ..."
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