Compromised

Examples

• It was the orthodox theology that the new scientific advances had compromised, but the angry theologians declared that it was religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lady Dedlock, here is a family name compromised. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To speak truth, I compromised matters; I served two masters: I bowed down in the houses of Rimmon, and lifted the heart at another shrine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You have compromised me by being seen about with me, endeavouring to counteract this Mr Eugene Wrayburn. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Not compromised. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But this put me into such a tremble lest they should detain me there that she soon recalled her words and compromised for a rest of half an hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You have compromised yourself seriously. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She compromised on an augmentation of her territory, twenty million dollars' indemnity in money, and peace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I say that he has most unfairly compromised Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My family respectability shall not be compromised. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Thus, by the great friendship of the secretary, the whole affair was compromised. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Typist: Winfred