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Definition of Surprisals
1. surprisal [n] - See also: surprisal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surprisals
Literary usage of Surprisals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"Yea, and though there be never so many instances of merciful surprisals, preventive
of all our own consideration and care, yet those are still to be ..."
2. The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt: Sometime One of the Judges of the Court by Michael Dodson, John Disney (1811)
"... rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and counterpart, surprisals, and
all other losses which had or should come to the damage of the said ship, ..."
3. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Or, what may we do, that we may betake ourselves unto it for our relief in our
surprisals and distresses? I answer, first, The first way is, by faith to get ..."
4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The sum of this part of the reply is, that what Paul speaks is true, of the
ordinary course of believers, but not of extraordinary surprisals; this seems, ..."
5. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"Yea, and though there be never so many instances of merciful surprisals, preventive
of all our own consideration and care, yet those are still to be ..."
6. The Life of Sir Michael Foster, Knt: Sometime One of the Judges of the Court by Michael Dodson, John Disney (1811)
"... rovers, thieves, jettisons, letters of mart and counterpart, surprisals, and
all other losses which had or should come to the damage of the said ship, ..."
7. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"Or, what may we do, that we may betake ourselves unto it for our relief in our
surprisals and distresses? I answer, first, The first way is, by faith to get ..."
8. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"... extraordinary surprisals; this seems, I say, to be the tendency of it, though
the direct sense of the whole is not so obvious to me: by that expression, ..."
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