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Definition of Ruinated
1. ruinate [v] - See also: ruinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruinated
Literary usage of Ruinated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"What town of any antiquity or note hath not been once, again and again, by the
fury of this merciless element, defaced, ruinated, and left desolate ? ..."
2. The Holyhead Road: The Mail-coach Road to Dublin by Charles George Harper (1902)
"... a deserted and ruinated windmill, and le;i'_ru.^ upon league* <>ï distant
country, unfolded to the startled eye. ..."
3. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1874)
"ruinated and not waste belonging to the Dean only :— " The church of Wells, ...
Churches being ruinated but the land not waste in the several Deaneries ..."
4. The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society (1864)
"In Ballimore peece, a Church ded. to the B. Virgin Mother, ruinated; the Golden
Chalice thereof plundered by ..."
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