˜yÐÄvlog

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manstealing

[ man-stee-ling ]

noun

  1. the act of kidnapping.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of manstealing1

First recorded in 1570–80; man + stealing
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Example Sentences

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What more ungodly sacriledge or manstealing can there be, then to purloin from godly Ministers the first born of their fervent prayers and faithfull preachings, the leven of their flocks, the incouragement of their soules, the Crowne of their labours, their Epistle to Heaven?

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There never was any manstealing Nellie Ely.

If he had merely accused the Christian man of the South, as he has so often done in his two stupid volumes on slavery, of the crimes of "swindling," of "theft," of "robbing," and of "manstealing," we could have borne with him well; and, as we have hitherto done, continued to pass by his labors with silent contempt.

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To take any free man, whether white or black, by force, and sell him into bondage, is manstealing.

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To make war for such a purpose, were, we admit, wholesale murder and manstealing combined.

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