Crossword-Solution: CONSCRIPTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conscription | n. | An enrolling or registering. |
| Conscription | n. | A compulsory enrollment of men for military or naval service; a draft. |
| Conscription | a. | Belonging to, or of the nature of, a conspiration. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “CONSCRIPTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AIRFORCE compulsory enlistment | 1 answer |
| ARMY, compulsory enlistment for | 1 answer |
| COMPULSORY enlistment | 1 answer |
| FORCES, compulsory enlistment for the | 1 answer |
| STATE service, compulsory enlistment for | 1 answer |
| Enlistment | 61 answers |
| Draft | 63 answers |
| Employment | 78 answers |
| Service ___ | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with CONSCRIPTION (5)
The credit of the English especially was so great, that a good Mussulman flying from the conscription, or any other persecution, would come to seek from the formerly despised hat that protection which the turban could no longer afford; and a man high in authority (as, for instance, the Governor in command of Gaza) would think that he had won a prize, or at all events, a valuable lottery ticket, if he obtained a written approval of his conduct from a simple traveller.
The war seemed to have hardly begun, as yet, and conscription was already talked about; the women, therefore, clamored for an exemption on account of sex.
And when I have paid for the policeman who protects me and, if I live in a country where conscription is in force, served in the army which guards my house and land from the invader, I am quits with society: for the rest I counter its might with my wiliness.
The man fled to the mountains to avoid the conscription, and they knew not whether he was alive or dead.
What is the conscription? An act of property exercised over families by the government without warning--a robbery of men and money.
Quotes with CONSCRIPTION (3)
... I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world. Compulsory schooling is essentially a means of curtailing natural strength and exploiting people. The same is true of military conscription, which developed within the same context. The anarch rejects both of them - just like obligatory vaccination and insurance of all kinds. He has reservations …
After Rep. Martin Sweeney of Ohio delivered a scathing attack on the Roosevelt administration for allegedly using conscription as a way to get the United States into the war, Rep. Beverly Vincent of Kentucky, who was next to Sweeney, loudly muttered that he refused “to sit by a traitor.” Sweeney swung at Vincent, who responded with a sharp right to the jaw that sent Sweeney staggering. It was, said the House doorkeeper, the best punch thrown by a member of Congress in fifty years.
A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who employ the term "we" or "us" without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, designed to suggest that "we" are all agreed on "our" interests and identity. Populist authoritarians try to slip it past you; so do some kinds of literary critics ("our sensibilities are enraged...") Always ask who this "we" is; as often as not it's an attempt to smuggle triba…