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Definition of Protestations
1. protestation [n] - See also: protestation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protestations
Literary usage of Protestations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... with modest firmness, the embraces and protestations of his icia-rier : and
eluded the proposal of allowing the Arians a single ..."
2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1856)
"So far from it, there is an express exhibition of him not only as a believer of
the truth of the Bible, but as forward and ostentatious in his protestations ..."
3. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"... obedient provinces—Pirates of Dunkirk—Uneasiness of the Netherlanders with
regard to the designs of Elizabeth—Her protestations of sincerity—Expedition ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... professions and protestations, which glisters like gold when it is but coppered
tinsel." " Poetry is so powerful, and hath such an attractive beauty, ..."
5. Peru by William Hickling Prescott (1900)
"a But these protestations of innocence had little effect on the troops, among
whom the story of a general rising of the natives continued to gain credit ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... and with needles sticking in them (as an emblem of jealousy), and so pacified
his suspicious father, after some speeches and protestations, ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1820)
"protestations against the Measures of the Prussian Police.—No Plot delected in
Prussia— Coercive Measures of the Diet.—Central Commission at Mentz. ..."
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