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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
trapan .
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Examples
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As for all other pretences, they are nothing but death and damnation dressed up in fair words and false shews; nothing but gins, and snares, and trapans for souls, contrived by the devil, and managed by such as the devil sets on work.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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Pardon is made a decoy to the crime, and a possibility to be saved trapans into a certainty of being damned.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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"Nothing but gins, and snares and _trapans_ for souls."
Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638
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“Nothing but gins, and snares and trapans for souls.” ”
Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898
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