10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETORTIVE»
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Enforcing International Law: From Self-help to ...
According to this, it may involve the imposition of retortive measures” . 83 De
Guttry, “Some Recent Cases”, 170 (“Countermeasures (either reprisals or
retorsion)”); Wrengler, “Public International Law — Paradoxes of a Legal Order”,
in Reed.
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
In the next book however, where the great men of the American revolution are
enumerated, the two Adamses, Hancock and Jefferson are grouped together,
and characterized in a body, and of" them we are told, that they " With eye
retortive ...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review: Containing ...
In the next book however, where the great men of the American revolution are
enumerated, the two Adamses, Hancock and Jefferson are grouped together,
and characterized in a body, and of them we are told, that they “ IVith eye retortive
...
David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher, 1809
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: A Work of Universal ...
Complaints and retortions are the common refuge of causes that want better
arguments. Lively Oracles (1678% p. 24. (Latham.) retortive (re-tflr'tiv), a. [(retort1
+ -we.] Ee- torting; turning backward; retrospective. [Bare.] From all his guileful
plots ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1906
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
258. (Latham) 2. The act of giving back or retaliating anything, as an accusation
or an indignity; a retort. Complaints and ram-tions are the common refuge of
causes that want better uments. Lively (1678), p. 24. (Latham) retortive (ré-tor'tiv),
a.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1900
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
Lively Oracles (1678), p. 24. (Latham.) retortive (re-t6r'tiv), a. [< retort1 + -ive.] Ee-
torting; turning backward; retrospective. [Rare.] From all his guileful plotB the veil
they drew, With eye retortive look'd creation thro. J. Barlow, The Columbiad, v.
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The Legality of Non-Forcible Counter-Measures in ...
It would follow, therefore, that counter-measures may be regarded as
synonymous with non-forcible reprisals. As regards distinctions between counter-
measures and retortive measures, it is sufficient to indicate that since the latter do
not ...
8
Jude the Obscure: With a Map of Wessex
She closed her lips in retortive silence, and they walked some way till she
glanced at him to see how he was taking it. 'Of course I may have exaggerated
your happiness —- one never knows,' he continued blandly. 'Don't think that, jude
, for a ...
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Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
514 Jllr. Pickering on the present state of the English language RETORTIVE. This
is called “ a new word” in an American review of Barlow'o Columbiad. See
Monthly Anthol. v. vii. p. H7. I presume no other A. merican author ever used it.
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A Dictionary of Simplified Spelling: Based on the ...
Retortive. re-toucht'8, pp. Retouched. re-trace'a-blp, a. Retraceable. re- tract 'a-
blp, re-tract'l-blp, a. Retractable, retractible. re-trac'tllp*8, -lle8, o. Retractile. re-
trac'tlv8, a. Retractive. re-trac'tlv-ly8, adv. Retractively. re-trac'tlv-ness8, n.
