Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
wrong .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are inhuman, and take a pleasure in wronging those that are least able to help themselves (v. 6); they not only oppress and impoverish, but they slay the widow and the stranger; not only neglect the fatherless, and make a prey of them, but murder them, because they are weak and exposed, and sometimes lie at their mercy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Whether one describes it as "wronging" and "evil speech" as Geoffrey Dennis does or Larry Bethune's "caustic language," here are a few examples from this week's posts:
Texas Faith: How did our civil debate become so uncivil? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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My love to the faithless Nettle [1] (who I dare say is 'wronging' me during my absence), and my best Compliments to all in your house who will receive them.
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I suspect this 'wronging' is here used much in the same sense as
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"There's one thing I'm not likely to forget," said he, "and that is, my wronging you as I did.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892
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It's been a rough seventeen months for Americans whose calling is to fight for the rights of people who've been stripped of them by force-young men and women beaten to death in full view of the world by the agents of their oppressors for daring to demand that their votes be counted; others hacked to death with the complicity of the autocrats in power over them for having been born the wrong color or to the wrong tribe; girls subjected to the lash, or, worse, murdered by their own mothers, fathers, or brothers for appearing in public in the wrong company; believers imprisoned for professing faith in the wrong god or the wrong political system; non-believers sentenced to death for "wronging" a wrathful, vengeful religion.
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Please except my apology and my deepest sorrow for wronging the entire Country, as well as my brothers/sisters in
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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver accused L'Osservatore of wronging Benedict by breaking the Vatican's own embargo and publishing the condom quotes without context or commentary.
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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver accused L'Osservatore of wronging Benedict by breaking the Vatican's own embargo and publishing the condom quotes without context or commentary.
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His is an act of revenge for a percieved wronging done to him personally.
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