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- noun Plural form of
engrosser .
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Examples
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Wartime profiteers were “Rascally Tory Jew engrossers.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The annual elections for the state Assembly took place in late October, and as Pennsylvania historian Robert Brunhouse put it, “The fury against engrossers, Tories, and well-to-do Republicans in general presaged only one result.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The annual elections for the state Assembly took place in late October, and as Pennsylvania historian Robert Brunhouse put it, “The fury against engrossers, Tories, and well-to-do Republicans in general presaged only one result.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Wartime profiteers were “Rascally Tory Jew engrossers.”
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushel?
Areopagitica 2007
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Should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds again, when we shall know nothing but what is measured to us by their bushel?
Areopagitica 2007
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In one of the most vehement letters he ever wrote, Washington gave vent to his hatred of big-time war profiteers—the monopolizers, forestallers, and engrossers of condign punishment. . .
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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In one of the most vehement letters he ever wrote, Washington gave vent to his hatred of big-time war profiteers—the monopolizers, forestallers, and engrossers of condign punishment. . .
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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The laws against forestallers and engrossers, who, it was currently believed, were leagued against both army and country, were powerless, as such laws always are.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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(3 Oct., 1709) to put the law in force against all engrossers, forestallers and regraters of corn.
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