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Definition of Inflames
1. inflame [v] - See also: inflame
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inflames
Literary usage of Inflames
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1851)
"ANTONIUS DELIVERS THE FUNERAL HARANGUE, WHICH inflames THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE
LIBERATORS, AND CREATES A TUMULT, IN WHICH THE! ARE COMPELLED TO CONCEAL ..."
2. War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ by David Low Dodge, Edwin Doak Mead (1905)
"WAR IS CRIMINAL, AS IT NATURALLY inflames THE PRIDE OF MAN One of the abominable
things which proceed out of the corrupt heart of man, as represented by our ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"And this is a prejudice that naturally inflames men to revenge, and breeds a
canker in religion, that eats up the spirit of it. ..."
4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"... in the meanwhile was exerting his inflames the utmost efforts to hasten the
rupture. ... inflames ..."
5. The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Eugenia Stanhope, Charles Strachey, Annette Calthrop (1901)
"... what people of learning you have made acquaintance with: and, if you will
trust me with so important an affair, what belle passion inflames you. ..."
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