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Incursion   /ɪnkˈərʒən/   Listen
noun
Incursion  n.  
1.
A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. "The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana." "The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire."
2.
Attack; occurrence. (Obs.) "Sins of daily incursion."
Synonyms: Invasion; inroad; raid; foray; sally; attack; onset; irruption. See Invasion.






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... money from the pockets of the English, whom the Flemings seemed to consider as walking bags of gold. Balls and plays, routs and dinners were the only topics of conversation; and though some occasional rumours were spread that the French had made an incursion within the lines, and carried off a few head of cattle, the tales were too vague to excite the least alarm. I was then lodging with a Madame Tissand, on the Place du Sablon, and I occasionally ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 351 - Volume 13, Saturday, January 10, 1829 • Various

... Lee meditates an incursion into Pennsylvania, and that Gen. Beauregard will protect his rear and cover this city. All is ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones

... other end of the world some prancing pro-consul finds it necessary to smash one of the man-slaying machines that loom ominous on his borders, or some savage potentate makes an incursion into territory of a British colony, or some fierce outburst of Mahommedan fanaticism raises up a Mahdi in mid-Africa. In a moment Tommy Atkins is marched off to the troop-ship, and swept across the seas, heart-sick ...
— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

... have recently been recovered (Menendez y Pelayo, Antologia, IX, 211). It seems to have dealt with an incursion of the French into Spain, and the lines here given are spoken by the hero Moriscote, when called upon to defend his country. Don Quijote quotes the first two lines of this ballad, ...
— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various

... either your daily infirmities trouble, or some grosser pollution defile and waste your conscience, know that this blood runs all along in the same channel of your obligation to holy walking, and is as sufficient now as ever, to cleanse you from all sin, from sins of daily incursion, and sins of a grosser nature. There is no exception in that blood, let there be none in your application to it and apprehension of it. Now, this is not to give boldness to any man to sin, or continue in sin, because of the lengthened use and continued virtue ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning


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