Definition of "mischiefs" []

• Plural form of mischief. (noun)

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• "It cannot, therefore, consistent with truth or candour, be asserted that there was the remotest probability that 'mischiefs' could in any parallel case ensue from the principles adopted by the committee."
• "Every person in the least conversant in the history of mankind, knows what dreadful mischiefs have been committed by religious persecutions, Under the color of religious tests, the utmost cruelties have been exercised."
• "Such a state of uncertainty in the statute laws of the land would lead to mischiefs absolutely intolerable."