The practice of extorting money or other property.
1 Nor is the tithe any longer the only exaction demanded by the Prophet.
2 The reputed exaction of his executive chamber was a sore spot to him.
3 Further application to the King put an end to this exaction . - Ed.
4 Nor was this exaction unreasonable in view of the emergency.
5 Let us see in what terms Dr. Kuyper justifies the Boer policy of exaction :
6 And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.
7 The dreaded pillage, however, was converted into a regular exaction .
8 So that bribery with him became a supplement to exaction .
9 The exaction of landlords hath indeed been a grievance of above twenty years' standing.
10 KINDNESS, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction .
11 Berlin when he was governor of that capital during the campaign of 1807. and exaction .
12 He was punctilious in the exaction of this ceremony.
13 The country was drained of treasure by the exaction of enormous ransoms for captured chiefs.
14 The Indians were triumphant, but not a whit the less inclined to obstinacy and exaction .
15 He seemed to dread the least appearance of exaction .
16 The government appealed his standing and exaction rulings.
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