Reprisals is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REPRISALS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• REPRISAL, the act of retaliation
• an act of retaliation
• the forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation.

Words related to REPRISALS

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How to use REPRISALS in a sentence

• The Boy, a little concerned as to possible reprisals upon so impudent a young woman, had gone on and on, watching the race down to the river, and even across the ice a little way.
• Insistent demands were then made by the English people for reprisals in kind.
• Whichever had the upper hand took advantage of the opportunity to carry out the most cruel reprisals against its defeated opponents.
• He recommended a final demand of redress, with a contingent authority to the Executive to make reprisals if that demand should be made in vain.
• These hostile activities in Macedonia naturally produced reprisals at the hands of the Turkish authorities.
• She has been indulging in drastic reprisals in consequence of Mr.
• The general Christian revolution thus seemed fairly launched, and in the first panic the threatened Moslems began reprisals of an equally general kind.
• However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M.
• The Scots not only invaded England, but adopted the policy of fighting England in Ireland, and English reprisals in Scotland were uniformly unsuccessful.
• Some of the soldiers killed themselves beside the pyre, not because they had harmed Vitellius or feared reprisals, but from love of their emperor, and to follow his noble example.
• Of course, everyone knows that there is a sense in which reprisals are a necessary part of warfare.
• A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals.
• Georges I inquired from the inhabitants the cause of the German reprisals.
• It was apparently expected that the Boers would attempt reprisals for our night attacks.
• And it is folly to talk of reprisals, or of persevering in hunting and going armed to the meet.
• The English, happily seated in an island, could make advantage of every misfortune which attended their neighbors, and were little exposed to the danger of reprisals.
• Indeed, of late years he had let slip many an opportunity for reprisals, and thrice had made overtures of peace which had been violently rejected.
• Resistance therefore had ceased, and that of a single house, held by two helpless women, could avail nothing, could but excite to fury and reprisals.
• These reprisals were certainly legitimate, for it must be remembered that, under Cromwell, they cut off the noses and ears of the stone saints in the churches.
• Reprisals, frequently bloody, were regularly instituted.
• Finally, still clinging to the old ways of mere raids and reprisals, he stood aghast at the idea of seizing Cape St.
• Their murderous deeds and the reprisals these brought about gave a darker tinge to the war henceforth.
• The Ermelo and Carolina men who had accompanied him to Natal returned to find that their districts had been roughly handled by Benson and were eager for reprisals.
• Sybarite withdrew to a respectful remove and held himself coolly alert against reprisals that never came.
• But if the other party refuses to have the matter brought to the proof, or to accede to any proposition to terminate the dispute in a peaceable manner, reprisals become lawful.

Similar words containing PRISAL without suffix s and without prefix re

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