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Definition of Exterminating
1. exterminate [v] - See also: exterminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exterminating
Literary usage of Exterminating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"This old and excellent regiment received the former sobriquet from its unerring
certainty in hunting down and nearly exterminating the Irish rebels in the ..."
2. The History of Romanism: from the Earliest Corruptions of Christianity to by John Dowling (1845)
"Hence in the decree issued by pope Alexander III., in the third council of Lateran,
in 1179, he labors not only to excite all in exterminating these ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Lilburn W. Boggs issued an exterminating order against the Latter-day Saints.
.... exterminating ..."
4. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Thomas Benfield Harbottle (1903)
"The name given to a rising of the Wampanoags, an Indian tribe, in 1675. with the
object of exterminating the white settlers in New England. ..."
5. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"But, fortunately for the Christians, Selim I. commenced his project of putting
an end to all religious differences in his dominions by exterminating heresy ..."
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