Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simplified spelling of
famine .
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Examples
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In the past, they have been charitable and keen to expose genuine abuses by nations and/or suffering caused by natural disasters, such as the Ethiopian famin of the 1970s & 80s, or abuses in Zombabwe.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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December 21, 2007 at 10:02 am teh gushi fud famin FTW!
Kitteh: 1 - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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But as Chingis Cham returned out of that countrey, his people wanted victuals, and suffered extreme famin.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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But as Chingis Cham returned out of that countrey, his people wanted victuals, and suffered extreme famin.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the yeare following king Swaine returned into Denmarke with all his fléet, partlie constrained so to doo (as some write) by reason of the great famin & want of necessarie sustenance, which in that
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Earthquakes, floods, huricanes, and famin … more to come, not all created by mother nature.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2010
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They ought to have care not to be taken by famine, and not to be overcome through assaultes: concernyng famin, it hath ben tolde, that it is requiset before the siege come, to be well provided of vitualles.
Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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Thus I have Stated what appears to me to be the natural course of the present contest, and in its course the diflferent Towns will have at different times to incounter all the miserys of War, Sword, famin, and perhaps pestalence, as that is generally an attendant on War and so is famin.
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Exonering - him be thir prefents, of all paine Se danger that he may incur thairthrow for eucr, Difcharging be their famin prefents, all and fundrie ludges and miniilers of his highnes lavvis, 8c vthers bis Majeflies liegis and fubjeds quhatfumever:
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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Kickass43: wantd 2 call up my bud bono and say we’d solvd the famin in Africa
Danielle Crittenden: The Secret Presidential IMs: Bush's "Roil" Pain 2008
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