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Oates

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Oates  (ts), Joyce Carol Born 1938.
American writer whose works often concern love and violence in American society. Among her novels are A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Bellefleur (1980), and American Appetites (1989).
Oates, Titus 1649-1705.
English conspirator. His story of a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1678) resulted in the execution of many innocent Catholics.
Oates [əʊts]
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1. (Biographies / Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace (1880-1912) M, English, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorer) Captain Lawrence Edward Grace. 1880-1912, English explorer. He died on Scott's second Antarctic expedition
2. (Biographies / Oates, Titus (1649-1705) M, English, POLITICS: conspirator) Titus. (ˈtaɪtəs). 1649-1705, English conspirator. He fabricated the Popish Plot (1678), a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill Charles II, burn London, and massacre Protestants. His perjury caused the execution of many innocent Catholics
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Noun1.OatesOates - English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
Titus Oates
2.Oates - United States writer (born in 1938)
Joyce Carol Oates


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"That would be Johnny Oates going out in his Bleriot," some one remarked.
The Kingdom of the Blind by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
Jem Rodney's story was no more than what might have been expected by anybody who had seen how Marner had cured Sally Oates, and made her sleep like a baby, when her heart had been beating enough to burst her body, for two months and more, while she had been under the doctor's care.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
The monstrous fiction of a 'Popish Plot,' brought forward by Titus Oates, and the murderous frenzy which it produced, were demonstrations of the strength of the Protestant feeling, and the leader of the Whigs, the Earl of Shaftesbury, proposed that the Duke of York should be excluded by law from the succession to the throne in favor of the Duke of Monmouth, one of the king's illegitimate sons.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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