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Definition of Inveighing
1. inveigh [v] - See also: inveigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inveighing
Literary usage of Inveighing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"pleased, the majority inveighing against the Athenians, and insisting upon war;
but the Corinthians (who had beforehand requested every state apart to ..."
2. Life and Letters of Edwin Lawrence Godkin by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1907)
"ing," denouncing, inveighing, disinterring dead speeches and by-gone slanders,
the utterance of awful prophecies, the drafting of windy and magniloquent ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"A brief rehearsal of two opinions, touching the beginning of the captivity, with
an answer to the cavils of Porphyry, inveighing against St. Matthew and ..."
4. Doctrinal Standards of Methodism, Including the Methodist Episcopal Churches by Thomas Benjamin Neely (1918)
"by inveighing against its Doctrines or Discipline, its Ministers, ... So the law
of 1792, prohibiting the members of the Church from inveighing against the ..."
5. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... into him all the prejudices of their religion, and were continually inveighing
... inveighing ..."
6. The History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V.: With a View of the Progress by William Robertson (1840)
"He concurred openly with him in inveighing against the school divines, as the
teachers of a system equally ..."
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