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Definition of "warre" []

  • Obsolete spelling of war. (noun)

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Use "warre" in a sentence
  • "They fared sumptuously every day on the food stored within the magazine; while "daily out of the woods" they took wild hogs, the "very good sort of a beast called warre," that Dampier ate, besides great store of turkeys, pheasants, and numberless guanas,"
  • "About the beginning of this tragicall warre, the Moscouite, to cloke his tyranny and ambition vnder some faire pretense amongst other of his demaunds, made mention also of a tribute which should be due vnto him out of the bishop of Dorpat his iurisdiction, whereof notwithstanding hee could neither bring any iust account, nor affirm any certainty: howbeit there is no man liuing to be found which either can tell of his owne remembrance, or from the relation of others, that any such tribute was euer paid vnto the"
  • "For to let pass y* infinite examples in sundrie nations and severall places of y* world, and instance in our owne, when as y '- old serpente could not prevaile by those firie flames & other his cruell tragedies, which he by his instruments put in ure every wher in y' days of queene Mary & before, he then begane an other kind of warre,"
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