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Definition of Impugns
1. impugn [v] - See also: impugn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impugns
Literary usage of Impugns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him. (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Alighieri (1887)
"He impugns the -verdicts of Dante's Commedia. THIS book of Dante's, very sooth
to say, Which by a lure as sweet as sweet can be Draws other men's concerns ..."
2. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"He impugns the verdicts of Dante's Commedia. THIS book of Dante's, very sooth to
say, Which by a lure as sweet as sweet can be Draws other men's concerns ..."
3. The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200 by Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Chiswick Press (1861)
"He impugns the verdicts of Dante's Commedia. THIS book of Dante's, very sooth to
say, Is just a poet's lovely heresy, Which hy a lure as sweet as sweet can ..."
4. The Life of Archbishop Cranmer by Henry John Todd (1831)
"... and impugns the Romish doctrine of remission of sins—A prior preaches against
him—The archbishop writes to the king—Suffragan bishops continued—Speech ..."
5. The Idol Demolished by Its Own Priest: An Answer to Cardinal Wiseman's by James Sheridan Knowles (1852)
"... stark-naked before the eyes of your church's besotted votaries, exclaims — "Behold
your God!" THE CARDINAL S DOCTRINE impugns THE TRUTH OP SCRIPTURE. ..."
6. Considerations on phrenology, in connexion with an intellectual, moral, and by Joseph Stordy Hodgson (1839)
"A work which impugns this doctrine attacks the Christian religion. 50. Geology and
astronomy had never been the objects of men's contemplations as ..."
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