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Definition of Evildoings
1. evildoing [n] - See also: evildoing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Evildoings
Literary usage of Evildoings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rolls of the Assizes Held in the Channel Islands in the Second Year of the by Channel Islands Courts, Gervaise Le Gros, Channel Islands (1903)
"... Ralph, William, Philippa, Michael & Thomas are not guilty thereof, nor suspected
of any other evildoings. Therefore they are discharged. ..."
2. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"also a very great flood in punishment of disregard of sacred customs and traditions
They express it in their language for "onr evildoings the water came ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... and all "tIn r evildoings offences, and injuries whatsoever, and also of the
accessaries of them, within the county aforesaid (as well within liberties ..."
4. The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India by Afonso de Albuquerque, Walter de Gray Birch (1875)
"... place or city in those parts, he was to render it secure with a strong fortress,
and bear in mind the treason and evildoings which the Kings of Calicut ..."
5. Life of William of Wykeham: Sometime Bishop of Winchester and Lord High by George Herbert Moberly (1887)
"... felt themselves at liberty to report to the bishop the evildoings of the
present master ; how he was robbing the hospital of "all corn, hay, animals, ..."
6. The Settlement of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and the Beginning of German by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (1899)
"... admonishing him not to persist in his evildoings but to Confess and make
reparation to the defrauded, if not fourfold as penitent Zaccheus did, ..."
7. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
""Your meaning is, I suppose, that folks must not be allowed to forget their
evildoings?" Ling's timid speech was again pooh-poohed, this time by Nat. ..."
8. Short studies on great subjects by James Anthony Froude (1868)
"... if Hintze trespassed in the priest's granary, they were but taken in their
own evildoings. And what is Isegrim, ..."
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