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Definition of Perpetrating
1. perpetrate [v] - See also: perpetrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perpetrating
Literary usage of Perpetrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict by Samuel Joseph May (1869)
"She was sure He must hate them, and would destroy those who persisted in perpetrating
them. She often spoke in our meetings, never uttering many sentences, ..."
2. Story of Our Post Office: The Greatest Government Department in All Its Phases by Marshall Henry Cushing (1892)
"... member of the firm, and D man in Belfast had been perpetrating jo of his goods
had been shipped to I ij to see the foreign invoice book of the $ with. ..."
3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"... whose altars they have polluted; and of the Holy Ghost, whose grace they have
set at naught, in perpetrating such enormous acts of wickedness. ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"... if we show you that no motive and no occasion did exist for perpetrating the
crime charged. . With the certainty of being tedious to you, gentlemen, ..."
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