Citations:impugn

English citations of impugn

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• 1834 - Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, Volume 2, page 253

  ...but what human authority has not been abused?—and the Roman Church was a human institution, growing out of human circumstances and human exigencies. The moment its empire was no longer needed, that moment it was impugned.

• 1859 — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

  Let the opinions impugned be the belief in a God and in a future state, or any of the commonly received doctrines of morality.

• 1864 — Abraham Lincoln, Fourth State of the Union Address

  There have been much impugning of motives and much heated controversy as to the proper means and best mode of advancing the Union cause.

• 1872 — Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Principles

  At home, at a period of immense prosperity, with a people contented and naturally loyal, we find to our surprise the most extravagant doctrines professed and the fundamental principles of our most valuable institutions impugned, and that too by persons of some authority.

• 1889 — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. xxv

  It is a hardy question, fair sir and Boss, since it doth go far to impugn the wisdom of even our holy Mother Church herself.

• 1922 — Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, ch. 21

  He is not dead. When he revives he will return to his quarters with a fine tale of his bravery and there will be none to impugn his boasts.