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murther
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mur·ther  (mûrr)
n. & v. Obsolete
Variant of murder.

murther [ˈmɜːðə]
n & vb
an archaic word for murder
murtherer  n


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Which godly Martyrs as they could not abide beyng aliue, so neither can they now suffer their memories to lyue after their death, least the acts of them beyng knowne, might bring perhaps their wicked acts and cruell murthers to detestation: and therfore spurne they so vehemently against this booke of histories, with all kind of contumelies and vprores, railing and wondering vpon it.
Notable in the knowledge thus acquired is not so much the catalog of perfidious deeds ranging from the harmless to the serious, but the discernible, casually rehearsed undertone of its language in which what is learned is already surmised and only in need of confirmation: For I must talk of murthers, rapes, and massacres Acts of black nights, abominable deeds Complots of mischiefs, treason, villainies .
 
 
 
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