assailment
Example Sentences
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But when Trump raised Cruz’s new assailment at a speech in Nevada on Thursday, his crowd laughed through it.
From US News ● Jan. 22, 2016
Franklin sat by the side of Jefferson, as the admirable document was subjected to this assailment.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Was he not member, duly elected, without possibility of assailment in his legal right?
From Annie Besant An Autobiography by Annie Wood Besant
The principle of assailment, if any, is the extension of the analogies beyond the Paley point....
From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by James Buchanan
As for the men, they twisted every item about Gourlay and his domicile into fresh matter of assailment.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
