Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
menace .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Same as
menace .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
menace . - verb Obsolete form of
menace .
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Examples
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Note 71: Wolter, no. 24, p. 118: "Par grant pour e par manace/de sun pere, ke mult l'engace,/tut en plorant od lede chere,/cum est de enfant la manere …." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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And the tother hond he lifteth up azenst the est, in tokene to manace the mysdoeres.
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And the tother hond he lifteth up azenst the est, in tokene to manace the mysdoeres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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If it be for anger or by way of manace or to show a moderation of wrath as the graue and discreeter sort of men do, then thus.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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And the tother hond he lifteth up azenst the est, in tokene to manace the mysdoeres.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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On th'other side, iustice in the greater to prepare and manace death and destruction to offenders.
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If it be for anger or by way of manace or to show a moderation of wrath as the graue and discreeter sort of men do, then thus.
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I really liked the manace of Rorschach and the sleazyness of The Comedian and the best sign of all is when a 2 3 / 4 hr movie doesn't actually feel as long as that.
DVD Times 2009
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I really liked the manace of Rorschach and the sleazyness of The Comedian and the best sign of all is when a 2 3 / 4 hr movie doesn't actually feel as long as that.
DVD Times 2009
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From the various reports of the Mat Rempit manace anyone could tell that things have gotten from bad to worse.
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