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Definition of Gangrening

1. gangrene [v] - See also: gangrene

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gangrening

Literary usage of Gangrening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces by John Marshall (1832)
"My earnest wish is that balm may be poured into all the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and to avoid those fatal consequences ..."

2. France by Morgan (Sydney), Thomas Charles Morgan (1817)
"It was a demoralization so perfect, so unrestrained, and finally so unconsciously subsisting, sapping, corrupting, gangrening every social and moral ..."

3. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"... the bargaining spirit which is gangrening all political organizations. Permit me to say, sir, that there is no man in America for whom I entertain a ..."

4. God Against Slavery: And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as by George Barrell Cheever (1857)
"... by the antagonistic gangrening energy of this domestic system, as a dead corrupting carcase, hung round the neck or* their Christianity itself, ..."

5. The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding: Demonstrated from the by George Barrell Cheever (1860)
"... fostered and festering, pestilences raging in the body, as well as sins gangrening in the soul, and making society a mass of moral putridity and misery. ..."

6. The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces by John Marshall (1832)
"My earnest wish is that balm may be poured into all the wounds which have been given, to prevent them from gangrening, and to avoid those fatal consequences ..."

7. France by Morgan (Sydney), Thomas Charles Morgan (1817)
"It was a demoralization so perfect, so unrestrained, and finally so unconsciously subsisting, sapping, corrupting, gangrening every social and moral ..."

8. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"... the bargaining spirit which is gangrening all political organizations. Permit me to say, sir, that there is no man in America for whom I entertain a ..."

9. God Against Slavery: And the Freedom and Duty of the Pulpit to Rebuke It, as by George Barrell Cheever (1857)
"... by the antagonistic gangrening energy of this domestic system, as a dead corrupting carcase, hung round the neck or* their Christianity itself, ..."

10. The Guilt of Slavery and the Crime of Slaveholding: Demonstrated from the by George Barrell Cheever (1860)
"... fostered and festering, pestilences raging in the body, as well as sins gangrening in the soul, and making society a mass of moral putridity and misery. ..."

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