2. Adjective. Tending to cause a scandal; scandalous. ¹
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Definition of Scandalizing
1. scandalize [v] - See also: scandalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scandalizing
Literary usage of Scandalizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"It' you do not like Diy opinion of you, prove yourselves something different,
you scandalizing imps ! Mtss ELLEN KOSK. Matrimonial advertisements are now ..."
2. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by Massachusetts County Court (Essex County), George Francis Dow (1921)
"Jeremiah Watts, complained of for matter of great moment, tending to the scandalizing
of many both ministers and others of good credit by his papers and ..."
3. Report of the Trial of James H. Peck: Judge of the United States District by James Hawkins Peck, Arthur Joseph Stansbury, United States Congress. Senate (1833)
"The offence was treated in the Star Chamber as of the same nature with that of
scandalizing the public justice, the King's Judges, Chancellor, &c. ..."
4. The History of the Church of Christ, from the Days of the Apostles, to the by Joseph Milner, Jesse Townsend (1816)
"I can do nothing, without scandalizing godliness ; id hurting the soui^ of many."
This letter was addressed to his friend Spa- latinus the elector's ..."
5. Extracts from the Presbytery Book of Strathbogie by John Stuart (1843)
"to keepe this daye for hearing the sentence of the brethren passe against him
for the scandalizing of his minister ..."
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