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from The Century Dictionary.
- Expressing indignation: as, indignatory answers; indignatory muscles.
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Examples
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Our space will only permit the insertion of the extracts which follow; and which, for originality of thought, beauty and force of expression, and for impassioned, indignatory eloquence, have seldom been equaled.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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Our space will only permit the insertion of the extracts which follow; and which, for originality of thought, beauty and force of expression, and for impassioned, indignatory eloquence, have seldom been equaled.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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We venture the assertion that there is not a volume in existence which contains better specimens of eloquence, impassioned, pathetic, indignatory -- eloquence that rouses up the better feelings of humanity -- than are contained in this volume.
My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850
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Our space will only permit the insertion of the extracts which follow; and which, for originality of thought, beauty and force of expression, and for impassioned, indignatory eloquence, have seldom been equaled.] [Footnote 11: It is not often that chattels address their owners.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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