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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
compromit .
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Examples
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While the war was in a course of vigorous and successful prosecution, being still anxious to arrest its evils, and considering that after the brilliant victories of our arms on the 8th and 9th of May last the national honor could not be compromitted by it, another overture was made to Mexico, by my direction, on the 27th of July last to terminate hostilities by a peace just and honorable to both countries.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Sincerely desirous of preserving the pacific relations which had so long existed between the two countries, I was anxious to avoid this course if I could be satisfied that by so neither the interests nor the honor of my country would be compromitted.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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In any event, however, the principle involved in the new aspect which has been given to the controversy is so vitally important to the independent administration of the Government that it can neither be surrendered nor compromitted without national degradation.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Sincerely desirous of preserving the pacific relations which had so long existed between the two countries, I was anxious to avoid this course if I could be satisfied that by doing so neither the interests nor the honor of my country would be compromitted.
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In any event, however, the principle involved in the new aspect which has been given to the controversy is so vitally important to the independent administration of the Government that it can neither be surrendered nor compromitted without national degradation.
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If not, and you would think dignity compromitted, some of the regular publishers might be diplomatized with.
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis George William Curtis 1858
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Hierarchy of Knowledge was compromitted by the violences of usurping ignorance, and the disorders of the Sanctuary are reproduced in the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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The Templars compromitted the King; they saved him from the rage of the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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I think, therefore, you by no means compromitted yourself or our country, nor expressed more than it would be our interest to encourage, if they were disposed to meet us.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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He was, indeed, anxious for the safety of his Prince; but he would never have compromitted the liberties of his country, even for such an object.
Memoirs of General Lafayette Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de 1824
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