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- verb Present participle of
sconce .
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Examples
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The penalty of "sconcing," still inflicted at Oxford, for offences against undergraduate etiquette, finds a place in the
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So far, the offences for which a sconce is prescribed, might in most cases, be paralleled in more recent times in an English college, but the statutes of Cornouaille also make sconcing the penalty for striking
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This is the intrepid way in which a strong parliament and a strong nation like to see public difficulties handled, and they now welcomed the appearance of a new minister, who rejected what he called narrow and flimsy expedients, of which so much had been seen in the last half dozen years; who was not afraid to make a stand against heedless men with hearts apparently set on drying up one source of revenue after another; who did not shrink from sconcing the powerful landed phalanx like other people; and who at the same time boldly used and manfully defended the most unpopular of all the public imposts.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
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