EDICT in a Sentence
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Example sentences for EDICT, such as:
1. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
2. The emperor issued an edict decreeing that everyone should come see him model his magnificent new clothes.
3. But she had a guilty sense of pleasure that the doctors' edict had made impossible any real intimacy between Ashley and his wife.
4. She and her family were living in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where the Taliban had issued an edict in 2009 banning all girls from school.
5. Force had been piled on top of force and military edicts in increasing numbers had rendered the civil authority more and more impotent.
2. The emperor issued an edict decreeing that everyone should come see him model his magnificent new clothes.
3. But she had a guilty sense of pleasure that the doctors' edict had made impossible any real intimacy between Ashley and his wife.
4. She and her family were living in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where the Taliban had issued an edict in 2009 banning all girls from school.
5. Force had been piled on top of force and military edicts in increasing numbers had rendered the civil authority more and more impotent.
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Meanings and Examples of EDICT
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edict
n. a formal or authoritative proclamation
n. a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
Classic Sentence:
1 Whereupon the emperor his father published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.
2 But she had a guilty sense of pleasure that the doctors' edict had made impossible any real intimacy between Ashley and his wife.
3 Briefly, the prevailing dissatisfaction grew until a tacit edict of proscription had been issued against both him and the poor young maiden.
4 It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
5 Force had been piled on top of force and military edicts in increasing numbers had rendered the civil authority more and more impotent.
Example Sentence:
1 The emperor issued an edict decreeing that everyone should come see him model his magnificent new clothes.
2 She and her family were living in Pakistan's Swat Valley, where the Taliban had issued an edict in 2009 banning all girls from school.