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wrong 1. (of a side, esp of a fabric) intended to face the inside so as not to be seen 2. Law a. an infringement of another person's rights, rendering the offender liable to a civil action, as for breach of contract or tort b. a violation of public rights and duties, affecting the community as a whole and actionable at the instance of the Crown How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong, putteth the law out of office. I could now see that I had been trebly in the wrong--wrong in hastily and cruelly suspecting an innocent woman; wrong in communicating my suspicions (without an attempt to verify them previously) to another person; wrong in accepting the flighty inferences and conclusions of Miserrimus Dexter as if they had been solid truths. Square had no sooner lighted his pipe, than, addressing himself to Allworthy, he thus began: "Sir, I cannot help congratulating you on your nephew; who, at an age when few lads have any ideas but of sensible objects, is arrived at a capacity of distinguishing right from wrong. |
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