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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
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Rescue
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(1):
(v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
(2):
(v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
(3):
(v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
(4):
(v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
(5):
(v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rescue'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rescue.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rescue'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rescue.html. 1828.
