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militate
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synonyms: redound ???
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Definition:1. to have an impactful influence (usually used in combination with the preposition against)2. to fight [obsolete]---if [this word] meant anything it would mean fight, but there is no such word.Ambrose Bierce. Write it Right (1909)
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by long practice in hardness and cruelty, brought their whole nature to about the same range of capacities. It is a common remark, and one that is thought to militate strongly against the character of the race, that the negro overseer is always more tyrannical and cruel than the white one.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Oh, Mr. Lydgate, you know well what your advantages are. You know that our young men here cannot cope with you. Where you frequent a house it may militate very much against a girl's making a desirable settlement in life, and prevent her from accepting offers even if they are made."George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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if his clothes were properly attended to so as to the better worm his way into their good graces as he, a youthful tyro in—society's sartorial niceties, hardly understood how a little thing like that could militate against you.
James Joyce. Ulysses.
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Militate. "Negligence militates against success."
Ambrose Bierce. Write it Right (1909)
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