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Definition of Expunging
1. Noun. Deletion by an act of expunging or erasing.
Generic synonyms: Deletion
Derivative terms: Erase, Erase, Expunge, Expunge
Definition of Expunging
1. Verb. (present participle of expunge) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expunging
1. expunge [v] - See also: expunge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expunging
Literary usage of Expunging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"ALABAMA expunging RESOLUTIONS. MR. KING, of Alabama, presented the preamble and
joint resolution of the general assembly of his State, entreating their ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"ON THE expunging RESOLUTION Speech delivered in the United States Senate, April 4,
... IF the Senate may expunge, and by expunging (in any form or manner) ..."
3. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by Thomas Hart Benton, United States Congress (1861)
"expunging Resolution. The idea, therefore, that the Senate is bound to preserve
its journal only until it is published, and then may alter, mutilate, ..."
4. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"The General Assembly of that State had instructed both Tyler and Leigh to vote
for the expunging of the resolution censuring Jackson for removing the ..."
5. The Works of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster (1890)
"PROTEST AGAINST THE expunging RESOLUTION.* THE Senate having under consideration
the resolutions, moved by Mr. Benton, for expunging from the journal of ..."
6. The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay by Henry Clay (1844)
"ON THE expunging RESOLUTION. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY 16, 1837.
' Resolved, that the president, in the late executive proceedings in ..."
7. The Life and Times of Henry Clay by Calvin Calton (1846)
"The Yeas and Nays on the expunging Resolution.—Remarks of Mr. Clay. ... Act of
expunging.—A Scene in the Senate. THE secret of General Jackson's influence, ..."
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