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Example sentences for "relegation"

Lexicographically close words:
releeue; relegate; relegated; relegates; relegating; releif; releive; relent; relented; relenting
  1. Another advance in the matter of the canon at this period was the general adoption of the Hebrew canon, with a relegation of the Greek additions in the Septuagint to the class publicly read.

  2. This scepticism went far to procure the exclusion of the suspected works from the canon, and their relegation to the class of the genuzim.

  3. From 1666, when he became prime minister in Yedo, Sakai Tadakiyo seems to have deliberately planned the relegation of his master to the position of a fainéant and the succession of the shogun's son to supreme power.

  4. Wherefore the Court deemed it prudent and just to sentence Caponsacchi to three years' relegation in Civita Vecchia for his rashness in running away with a wife from her husband, even though the motive was pity.

  5. In September, judgment was rendered against Caponsacchi--relegation for three years to Civita Vecchia--a punishment commensurate with indiscretion rather than with crime.

  6. Still more resented her own relegation to the nullity of the prenatal state.

  7. The relegation is the punishment next in severity.

  8. Yet ultimately the impression of his own relegation to a secondary place remained elusive and incommunicable.

  9. Dinner is ready," announced Hilda fresh from a triumph over Mrs. Worfolk about the sauce and happily ignorant of the dreadful relegation of her son.

  10. In that future his greatness while living was repaid by his relegation to the desert and the rock with the he-goat for his support.

  11. This relegation of Samael to the wandering Jews--who if they died abroad were not supposed to reach Paradise with facility, if at all--is significant.

  12. He considers the process of extinction as of five different types: "(1) That extinction which comes from modification or progressive evolution, a relegation to the past as a result of the transmutation into more advanced forms.

  13. That extinction which comes from modification or progressive evolution, a relegation to the past as the result of a transmutation into more advanced forms.

  14. We cannot view with equanimity his relegation to lower positions, while the better places are given to better-trained immigrants.

  15. The relegation of the mercantile class to the lowest place in the social scale must have produced some curious results.

  16. Only by the restoration of the Son of Heaven to his ancient position of power, and by the relegation of the military chiefs to their proper state of subordination, could the best interests of the nation be really served.

  17. In the Metropolis, it should be said, provision has been made for the relegation to special institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, not only of children suffering from ophthalmia, etc.

  18. Then he tells how, as in relegation he was studying verse, suddenly a thunderclap came into his solitude.

  19. Then they discussed the decision of the court--the sentence, the relegation of the priest, the seclusion of the wife in the convent at Guido's expense.

  20. The alleged conspiracy against Pertinax of Consul Sosius Falco and his disgrace and relegation to his estates was a great shock to my master.


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