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Definition of Indignities
1. indignity [n] - See also: indignity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indignities
Literary usage of Indignities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Marriage and Divorce: With the Evidence, Practice by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1881)
"It was deemed that the adequacy of the indignities would depend much on the
special circumstances, and, in the language of the learned judge, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Marriage, Divorce, Separation, and Domestic Relations by James Schouler, Arthur Walker Blakemore (1921)
"As to " offering indignities," whether it be to a wife's person, " so as to render
her condition intolerable and her life burdensome," or, in a reciprocal ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""indignities to the person," as used in a statute which authorizes a divorce
where either party shall offer such indignities to the person of the other as ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1882)
"Offences akin to Cruelty; indignities, Conviction, Intemperance, &c. — As to "
offering indignities," whether it be to a wife's person, " so as to render ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"ten, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were retaliated on the sons
and daughters of the Romans.78 The imprudence of Valens and his ministers had ..."
6. New Commentaries on Marriage, Divorce, and Separation as to the Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1891)
"Offering indignities : — As Cruelty. — This matrimonial offence, like the last,
is a species of cruelty, and under the title Cruelty we have already ..."
7. The Chartist Movement in Its Social and Economic Aspects by Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt (1916)
"ing every possible objection to the bail offered, and were subjected to the
discipline and indignities of convicted felons.1 The ire of the masses was ..."
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