Exacts
[iɡ'zækts]
Examples
- If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My sister, I suppose, exacts this care. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Philosophy is thinking what the known demands of us--what responsive attitude it exacts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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