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Extinguishing   /ɪkstˈɪŋgwɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Extinguish  v. t.  (past & past part. extinguished; pres. part. extinguishing)  
1.
To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. "A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish." "This extinguishes my right to the reversion."
2.
To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. "Natural graces that extinguish art.".





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"Extinguishing" Quotes from Famous Books



... the wizard found, Who moved from cavern's mouth a stone; Then bade him go beneath the ground, And pace through unknown realms alone, Till from a niche he bore away A lamp—extinguishing its ray. ...
— Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp • Anonymous
... affection and obedience to your majesty, that (God be praised) the only way to be popular with us is to be eminently loyal. Your majesty's care of us, when you took us to be your special charge, your wisdom in extinguishing the seeds of rebellion and faction amongst us, your justice, which was so great as to be for ever exemplary, but above all, your majesty's free and cheerful securing to us our religion, when your were ...
— A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second • Charles James Fox
... struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species. ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... Parliament, made in the first year of King George the First, entitled, "An Act for the further security of his Majesty's person and government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants, and for the extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors," that is to say, the president before the governor of our said province for the time being, or by one empowered by him to that service, or by ...
— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith
... mother, supported by cushions in her chair at the head of the table, to which he had brought her in his arms, lamented his lack of appetite, and inquired tenderly if he were suffering? For the first time in his life he discovered that he was extinguishing, with difficulty, a smouldering resentment against her. Kesiah's ugliness became a positive affront to him, and he felt as bitterly toward her as though she had purposely designed her appearance in order to annoy him. The wine she drank showed immediately in her face, and he determined to tell ...
— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow


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