Extirpation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTIRPATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of extirpating
• 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.
• surgical removal of a body part or tissue
• the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
• complete excision or surgical destruction of a body part.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to destroy completely; wipe out; to pull up by the root

Words related to EXTIRPATION

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Words that contain EXTIRPATION

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How to use EXTIRPATION in a sentence

• Left to themselves their extirpation is inevitable.
• This was the man, gaunt, austere, and dangerous, who now waited upon the Governor with a plan for the extirpation of Sharkey.
• Although Singapore is a small island, and all means have been used and rewards offered for the extirpation of the tigers, they have failed.
• It will be difficult for you to persuade the North, that she would suffer in a pecuniary point of view by the extirpation of slavery.
• According to the doctrine of Liberty, we are to devote ourselves to prevention, as the surest and most wholesome mode of extirpation.
• The motives of the undertaking were distinctly announced to be the gradual extirpation of slavery in Maryland, and the spread of civilization and Christianity in Africa.
• The introduction of Christianity, and final extirpation of idolatry, is said to have occurred in the sixth century.
• The pope issued a decree offering the entire pardon of all sins to those who should engage in this holy war for the extirpation of the doctrines of the reformers.
• He now deemed himself omnipotent, and with wild ambition contemplated the utter extirpation of Protestantism, and the subjugation of nearly all of Europe to his sway.
• He then moved vigorously for the extirpation of the Protestant religion.
• But the Index did not stop its work of extirpation.
• We have seen that the Council of Trent provided amply for the extirpation of lewd and obscene publications.
• Under its sanction and by its connivance the institution of slavery flourished and prospered, until it had taken such deep root as to be almost impossible of extirpation.
• The second is the extirpation of idolatry and wickedness, and all things contrary to truth, not according to godliness, the proper and perpetual matter of all covenants.
• Whether any thing, the extirpation of which is sworn by an ordinance of parliament, can be said to stand by law? These are some queries I have met with.
• Nor is any man hereby bound to offer any violence to their persons, but only in his place and calling, to endeavour their extirpation in a lawful way.
• A general belief in the existence of witches prevailed in every country, and stringent measures were adopted for their extirpation.
• Another remarkable incident of this reign was the extirpation of wolves from England.
• Only rarely has a cure followed a single extirpation.
• A HISTORY OF A MISCHIEVOUS TENDENCY IS THE VERY BEST METHOD FOR ITS REFUTATION AND EXTIRPATION.
• The Father learned that during these orgies not unfrequently whole villages were consumed, and the total extirpation of some families had resulted.
• The Maid believed in good faith that the extirpation of the Hussites was a work pleasing to God.
• The antics of fools make the current follies more palpable, as fashions are shown to be absurd by caricatures, which so lead to their extirpation.
• All labor, like us, for the extirpation of vice, the purification of man, the development of the arts and sciences, and the relief of humanity.
• Toward Egyptian idolatry they felt the strongest abhorrence, and under Cambyses pursued a regular plan for its utter extirpation.
• So also, it was the spear of Charlemagne which drove the Saxons to baptism, and decided the extirpation of Paganism from Teutonic Europe.
• It means, fourthly, the extirpation of social vice.
• The church from its earliest history looked upon witchcraft as a deadly sin, and disbelief in it as a heresy, and set its machinery in motion for its extirpation.
• He told them they would meet him again in the coming bitter days, and with prodigious force, predicted the extirpation of slavery.
• To the French colony the extirpation of the Hurons came as a severe blow.
• Where weeds of this nature occur, there is too often thought to be more labour than profit in their extirpation.
• This fact, however, affords little cause for congratulation, and I fear that it is far from indicating any real and substantial progress toward the extirpation of polygamy.
• The first settling of the Jews here was attended by an almost entire extirpation of all the former inhabitants.
• This man, by policy and force, had protected himself from the general extirpation of the Rohilla chiefs.
• The council then gives directions for the extirpation of any abuses which may creep in.
• The policy of the Japanese rulers, after the supposed utter extirpation of Christianity, was the double one of exclusion and inclusion.
• Acts were passed for the utter extirpation of the system during the reign of Louis Philippe, and again in the time of the Second Republic.

Similar words containing TIRPA without suffix tion and without prefix ex

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