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Definition of Poniarding
1. poniard [v] - See also: poniard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poniarding
Literary usage of Poniarding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"Therefore, simultaneously with Mazzini's proclamation, which is tolerably indicative
of poniarding, there emanates one with the name of Kossuth appended to ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"The critic, again, is very angry with Ariosto for making Giocondo abstain from
poniarding his wife because of the love he bore her. ..."
3. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1908)
"Marat repelled the disparaging imputation of clemency and common sense, and talked
in his familiar vein of poniarding brigands, burning despots alive in ..."
4. Critical Miscellanies by John Morley (1898)
"Marat repelled the disparaging imputation of clemency and common sense, and talked
in his familiar vein of poniarding brigands, burning despots alive in ..."
5. A History of the Italian Republics: Being a View of the Rise, Progress, and by Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde Sismondi (1847)
"... the prince they must obey had attained power only by betraying his friends or
his fellow- citizens, by poisoning or poniarding his uncle or his brother. ..."
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