¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imbruing
1. imbrue [v] - See also: imbrue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbruing
Literary usage of Imbruing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Robertson: To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life by William Robertson, Alexander Stewart (1820)
"... imbruing his hands in the blood of his country- men, began to move towards
Cuzco, at the head of sixteen hundred men. PIZARRO, confident of victory, ..."
2. Trial of Charles M. Jefferds for Murder, at New York, December 1861 by Charles M. Jefferds, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862)
"No man at once falls to the very lowest depths of the abyss of crime, by imbruing,
at the same moment, almost, his hands in the life-blood of two of his ..."
3. The English Pulpit: Collection of Sermons by Chester Field (1848)
"The bolt is drawn — the drop falls — there. he struggles; — what would you say ?
The man was not only guilty of imbruing his hands in his brother's blood, ..."
Other Resources:
