Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet SLIGHTING

Definition av SLIGHTING

1. böjningsform av slight
2. presensparticip av slight

Exempel på hur man kan använda SLIGHTING i en mening

• Despite forming part of a local royalist rebellion in 1648, the castle escaped slighting and was garrisoned by Parliament, but fell into ruin around 1660, eventually forming part of a stately home and park in the 19th century.
• Pope Felix III considered Acacius' slighting of Chalcedon and his predecessor Leo to be an affront to the prestige of his See.
• In the Levant, Muslim rulers adopted a policy of slighting castles and fortified towns and cities to deny them to Crusaders; Sultan Baybars, for example, instigated the destruction of fortifications at Jaffa in 1267, Antioch in 1268, and Ashkelon in 1270.
• Through the early 1950s a series of events led to Shockley becoming increasingly upset with Bell's management, and especially what he saw as a slighting when Bell promoted Bardeen and Brattain's names ahead of his own on the transistor's patent.
• Part of the red squadron, Holmes was finally given acting flag-rank when the fleet was divided to shadow the Dutch and simultaneously intercept the French (which put him, satisfyingly, one step above Harman, rear-admiral of the white - a slighting of the principle of seniority which would have been unthinkable at the end of the century).
• The French invasion during the First Barons' War forced John to order the slighting of Pevensey Castle, as he did not have enough men to garrison it and could not afford it to fall into French hands.
• They mentioned only three actors, giving James Herne his due, but slighting his daughter Julie Herne as "sadly overweighted in a role requiring intelligble emotional expression", while William Hodge was saluted for a triumph, "the best in the piece".
• By slighting tilting them towards the interior and packing them on the outside with compressed clay or stones, the orthostats of the trilithons were given greater stability, whilst the supporting stones at places with three-point supported capstones were essentially placed vertically.

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