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- verb Present participle of
endamage .
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Examples
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It chrusheth also and consumeth the bones without wounding or endamaging the flesh wherewith they are veiled and covered.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It chrusheth also and consumeth the bones without wounding or endamaging the flesh wherewith they are veiled and covered.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And perhaps I may rest contented with the only imitation of Amadis, who, without endamaging, and by his ravings, and only using these of feeling laments, [arrived] to as great fame thereby as anyone whatsoever.
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The being rightfully possessed of great power and riches, exceedingly beyond the greatest part of the sons of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason for rapine and oppression, which the endamaging another without authority is, that it is a great aggravation of it.
Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II 1698
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It chrusheth also and consumeth the bones without wounding or endamaging the flesh wherewith they are veiled and covered.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Companies were united; "a combined fleet of English and Dutch ships, sailing under the modest name of the Fleet of Defence, was equipped for the purpose of endamaging the common enemy and diverting the trade of China from the Philippine Islands to the Dutch and English settlements; in other words, to blockade the Spanish and Portuguese ports and seize as many of the Chinese trading junks as possible.
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