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purprestures

purprestures is the plural of purpresture.

Meaning of purpresture

Noun

purpresture (countable and uncountable, plural purprestures)

  1. (historical) The unlawful personal appropriation of public lands; wrongful encroachment on, or enclosure of properties belonging to the public (e.g. highways, sidewalks, forests, harbors).

Questions about purprestures

What is purprestures the plural of?
Purprestures is the plural of purpresture.

Words near purprestures in the dictionary

  1. purposivistic
  2. purposivists
  3. purposivity
  4. purpre
  5. purpresture
  6. purprestures
  7. purprise
  8. purprises
  9. purpronin
  10. purpura
  11. purpura rheumatica

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