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- verb Present participle of
criminate .
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Examples
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As to the choice of the spot, obviously such criminating evidence had better take its chance of being found anywhere, rather than upon himself, or in his possession.
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I saw at once that all the criminating discoveries arose, either directly or indirectly, from himself.
Thou Art the Man 2006
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Whereas common sense is aware only of the more superficial rules without dis - criminating carefully among them, the scientific mind disentangles the necessary from accidental connections among perceptions so as to make explicit this basic structure.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SHIRLEY ROBIN LETWIN 1968
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Yet, in proportion as the force of Lecointre's denunciation became evident, the Assembly appeared anxious to suppress it; and, after some hours 'scandalous debate, during which it was frequently asserted that these charges could not be encouraged without criminating the entire legislative body, they decreed the whole to be false and defamatory.
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Nashville, that, though he swore much, yet he never went to bed without saying his prayers; and now, at last, we find him on his death-bed, not criminating or explaining, but seeking the consolations of religion.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett
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Yet, in proportion as the force of Lecointre's denunciation became evident, the Assembly appeared anxious to suppress it; and, after some hours 'scandalous debate, during which it was frequently asserted that these charges could not be encouraged without criminating the entire legislative body, they decreed the whole to be false and defamatory.
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It is sufficiently remarkable, that notwithstanding the court must have seen the necessity of gaining over the party now in power, no vestige of any attempt of this kind has been discovered; and every criminating negotiation is ascribed to the dead, the absent, or the insignificant.
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Clinton when the unfortunate young adjutant was taken, and the papers criminating Arnold found upon his person.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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Mr Elliot's study, where Buller was warned against criminating himself, and then allowed to speak.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough
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Books and White Books and Red Books, with their stories of the atrocities of the enemy, ad nauseam, will come upon the criminating
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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