2. Verb. (third-person singular of menace) ¹
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Definition of Menaces
1. menace [v] - See also: menace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menaces
Literary usage of Menaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1848)
"... and as the time of tentatives had been followed by that of menaces; now that
of arrangements was to succeed the period of threaten- ings. ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...by Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke (1802)
"The Colonization of Egypt his favourite Project,—French menaces of invading
England,— Sea ... 77;« Policy of Buonaparte in his menaces of ..."
3. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves (1877)
"Whosoever shall with menaces or by force demand any property, chattel, money,
... It shall be immaterial whether the menaces or threats hereinbefore ..."