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Example sentences for "seditious libel"

  • After being found guilty of seditious libel, he again ran for the House of Commons, and was repeatedly elected and expelled.

  • Juries were loath to find anyone guilty of seditious libel.

  • As Attorney General, Edward Coke introduced the crime of "seditious libel" in a case before the Star Chamber in 1606.

  • Seditious libel trials in England and the colonies were followed closely and their defendants broadly supported.

  • As Attorney General, Coke introduced the crime of "seditious libel" in a case before the Star Chamber in 1606.

  • It was immediately resolved by the commons that he was guilty of a seditious libel, calculated "to inflame and stir up the minds of his majesty's subjects to sedition, and to a total subversion of all good order and legal government.

  • They stood severally convicted of having published a seditious libel.

  • Their modest petition had been treated as a seditious libel.

  • This narrative, if published by a private man, would undoubtedly have been a seditious libel.

  • The offence imputed was a false, a malicious, a seditious libel.

  • It was accordingly resolved that the Archbishop and the six other petititioners should be brought before the Court of King's Bench on a charge of seditious libel.

  • The "Seditious Libel" would now be thought a quite moderate Editorial or "Letter from our Correspondent.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seditious libel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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