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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
delegalize .
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Examples
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He was the rightful heir of his title and estates, yet he could never inherit them; he had been delegalized by his father's own hasty, reckless and cruel act; and for no fault of the boy's own -- before he was capable of committing any fault -- before his birth -- he was disinherited.
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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No! there could be no question about it; the boy was the living image of what he himself had been at that age, as all his portraits could prove! and his eldest son, his rightful heir, stood before him, but forever and irrecoverably disinherited and delegalized by his own rash and cruel act.
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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He was disowned, disinherited, delegalized, deprived even of a name in this world.
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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Had you been less bitterly incredulous of my statements, less cruel in your judgment of me, less murderous in your vengeance upon one much more sinned against than sinning, I should have ventured to write to you of my condition and my prospect of giving you an heir to your dukedom, in time to prevent your rash and fatal act by which you unconsciously delegalized your own lawful son!
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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During the latter portion of the mother-superior's story -- the portion that related to the delegalized elder son of the Duke of Hereward -- a light had dawned upon the mind of Salome, but so slowly that no sudden shock of joy had been felt, no wild exclamation of astonishment uttered: yet that light had revealed to the amazed and overjoyed young wife, beyond all possibility of further doubt, the blessed truth of the perfect freedom of her worshiped husband from all participation in the awful crimes of which over-whelming circumstantial evidence had convicted him in her own mind, but of which it was now certain that his miserable brother, his "double" in appearance, was alone guilty.
The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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"grounded", delegalized, because it has become dictatorial.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010
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"grounded", delegalized, because it has become dictatorial.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010
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"grounded", delegalized, because it has become dictatorial.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010
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"grounded", delegalized, because it has become dictatorial.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010
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"grounded", delegalized, because it has become dictatorial.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Tasine 2010
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