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- verb Present participle of
extirp .
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By that I mean the consistent and decreed plan to found a lay religion, and impose the observances and dogmas of its theories on twenty-six millions of Frenchmen, and, consequently extirping Christianity, its worship and its clergy.
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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