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- verb Present participle of
amerce .
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Examples
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That _avenging_ the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was _taking the master's life_ we infer.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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That _avenging_ the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was _taking the master's life_ we infer.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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One of their measures has been questioned as unwise and impolitic -- that, namely, for amercing and confiscating the estates of certain of the loyalists, and for banishing the most obnoxious among them.
The Life of Francis Marion Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 1844
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The principal man-dancer was arrested for debt; to the composer his Lordship gave a bad note, not payable in two years, besides amercing him entirely three hundred pounds, on pretence of his siding with the Violette.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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I am passionate about embracing my life as a precise gift and amercing myself in all of life’s opportunities.
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I am passionate about embracing my life as a precise gift and amercing myself in all of life’s opportunities.
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