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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dephlegmate .
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Examples
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The whole tendency of their efforts is to aggravate present suffering, and to cut off the chance of future improvement, and in all their bearings and results, have produced, and are likely to produce, nothing but "pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil."
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Paras. 60-83 1909
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