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Definition of Pretexts
1. pretext [v] - See also: pretext
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pretexts
Literary usage of Pretexts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"We shall therefore give the name of pretexts to those reasons alleged as ...
The name of pretexts may likewise be applied to reasons which are, ..."
2. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1852)
"We shall therefore give the name of pretexts to those reasons alleged as ...
The name of pretexts may likewise be applied to reasons which are, ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"Causes of war must not be confounded with unction" pretexts for war. A State
which makes war against another will never confess that there is no just cause ..."
4. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"And what are the pretexts for this flagrant attempt? The same that were urged by
the scrivener, John Blunt, in favor of his South Sea bubble—and by the ..."
5. Halleck's International Law, Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of States by Henry Wager Halleck (1893)
"pretexts § 14. pretexts are the reasons which are alleged in ... pretexts,' says
Vattel, ' are at least an homage which unjust men pay to justice. ..."
6. Guide for Catholic Young Women: Especially for Those who Earn Their Own Living by George Deshon (1893)
"THE DEVIL'S pretexts FOR LYING. THE devil is the father of lies, the parent of
a numerous progeny of lies, which he stirs up in the hearts of those who give ..."
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