Crossword-Solution: CHANTAGE
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
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Sentences with CHANTAGE (5)
You will be on the road which leads from mere dishonour to crime; and you may find yourself actually practising _chantage_, and extorting money as the price of your silence.
XXXVII.--BLACKMAILING There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage.
Sometimes they act as a kind of irregular police force, levying _chantage_ from those whom they detect in the commission of an offence; and, when crime is scarce, they often exact blackmail from wholly innocent people by threatening to accuse them of some ill-deed, unless their goodwill is purchased at their own price.
His anti-Semitism was adopted originally as a means of _chantage_, and it was only when it failed to yield profit in this form that he came out boldly as an agitator.
That Aretino was the inventor of literary _chantage_ is certain; but that it was justifiable, does not appear.] [Footnote 518: Aretino made no secret of his artificial method of flattery.