conquestingn.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > conquering or defeating
vanquishinga1325
conquestc1325
wainc1330
conqueringa1340
overcoming1340
conquest1384
expugnation1429
reduction1429
profligationc1475
debellation1526
defeating1536
conquessingc1550
conquesting1555
vanquishment1593
conquerment1597
eviction1602
reducement1609
debellatinga1626
debelling1651
triumphingc1850
lathering1865
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aviij v He euen then..sente furth shyppes for the conquestynge of the Indies.
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 343 The conquestynge of fortie or fyftie myles here and there.
2. Acquisition otherwise than by inheritance. Scottish.
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1823 J. Galt Entail I. xviii. 147 The property is my own conquesting..I may make a kirk and a mill o't an I like.
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