Crossword-Solution: EXTIRPATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extirpation | n. | The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “EXTIRPATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| cutting off from existence | 1 answer |
| COMPLETE removal | 2 answers |
| obliteration | 15 answers |
| destructiveness | 19 answers |
| holocaust | 33 answers |
| mass murder | 40 answers |
| disruption | 43 answers |
| removal | 57 answers |
| Havoc | 59 answers |
| Devastation | 66 answers |
| Destruction | 71 answers |
| eradication | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with EXTIRPATION (5)
The personal enemies of Rezanov and the bitter and persistent opponents of the companies threw themselves eagerly into the scale with tales of brutality of the merchants and the threatened extirpation of the fur-bearing animals.
This prince, whom we shall afterwards become better acquainted with under the title of Ferdinand II., Emperor of Germany, had, by the violent extirpation of the Protestant religion within his hereditary dominions, announced himself as an inexorable zealot for popery, and was consequently looked upon by the Roman Catholic part of Bohemia as the future pillar of their church.
Also, as Machiavel noteth well, when princes, that ought to be common parents, make themselves as a party, and lean to a side, it is as a boat, that is overthrown by uneven weight on the one side; as was well seen, in the time of Henry the Third of France; for first, himself entered league for the extirpation of the Protestants; and presently after, the same league was turned upon himself.
Bloody Mary of England was nearly as merciless, but she was sincere and uncompromising in her extirpation of heretics.
Some peculiar custom may disgrace the people amongst whom it flourishes; yet men of a little wisdom refuse to aid in its extirpation, merely because it is old.
Quotes with EXTIRPATION (3)
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
The generative function is strictly nothing but an animal one, and can never be anything else. True spirituality demands its utter extirpation; and while its proper exercise for the continuation of the human race, in the semi-animal stage of its evolution, may not be considered sinful, its misuse, in any way, is fraught with the most terrible consequences physically, psychically and spiritually; and the forces connected with it are used for abnormal purposes only in the foule…
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. The unhappy man who has been treated as a brute animal, too frequently sinks beneath the common standard of the human species. The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart… To instruct, to advise, to qualify those, who have bee…