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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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WREAK, v.t. [G. The sense is to drive or throw, to dash with violence.]
WREAK, for reck. To care, is a mistake.
WREAK, n. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion.
To reck; to care.
[Obs.] Shak. To revenge; to avenge.
[Archaic]
He should wreake him on his foes. Chaucer. Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. Spenser. Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. Fairfax. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict;
to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
On me let Death wreak all his rage. Milton. Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
[Obs.]
Shak. Spenser. | ||||||||