rob.' name='description'> robb'd - definition and meaning

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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of rob.

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Examples

  • The cedar by contrast was shown to be "like some great eastern king", destroying everything in its shade, "Secure and shelter'd, every subject lies;/But, robb'd of moisture, sickens, droops, and dies" (V. 61-63; V. 111-20).

    Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape 2001

  • To Scotland then they came, and they robb'd on every Hand,

    You Jacobites By Name 1994

  • _ The first time that I e're beheld her Face, I wou'd have robb'd her.

    The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

  • _ That hand dares not doe't; y'ave cut too many throats already, Guise, and robb'd the realme of many thousand soules, more precious than thine owne.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • Much grudg'd the praise, but more the robb'd reward:

    The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • And by the help of her beloved _Summerfield_, has robb'd my Friend of all he cou'd call Dear, I mean his Fame.

    The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

  • They are, no Doubt, very great Thieves, but this may flow from their unhappy, indigent Circumstances, and not from a natural Bent; and when they have robb'd, you may lash them Hours before they will confess the Fact; however, were they not to look upon every White Man as their Tormentor; were a slight Fault to be pardon'd now and then; were their Masters, and those adamantine-hearted Overseers, to exercise a little more

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil --

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Parish-Churches in Henry the VIII's time were robb'd of, and lodging the Advowsons and Presentations in their own Feoffees, to have introduced men, who would have introduced doctrines suitable to their dependences, which the Court already felt too much the smart of, by being forced to admitt the Presentations of the Lay-Patrons, who too often dispose their benefices to men, rather suitable to their own opinions, than the Articles and Canons of the Church.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • What, a Thief, a Thief, what wou'd you have robb'd her of?

    The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

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