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Definition of Hirelings
1. hireling [n] - See also: hireling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hirelings
Literary usage of Hirelings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, Philip Schaff, John Chrysostom (1888)
"But give heed to the fact that even the hirelings are needful. ... Hearken to
the hirelings as pointed out by the Lord Himself: " The scribes," He saith, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... ruffians, hirelings, slaves, Black hearts and bloody hands ! Our country will
refuse its graves To your polluted bands. The carrion vulture in his ..."
3. William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries: Seventy Years of Social and by Thomas Archer (1903)
"... they had become literally children, and Rigby and his brother hirelings were
the nurses that frightened them with hideous fables and ugly words. ..."