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Look up: Wring

  1. wring
    [v] - twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid 2. [v] - twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Wring
    Wring transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wrung , Obsolete Wringed ; present participle & verbal noun Wringing .] [ Middle English wringen , Anglo-Saxon wringan...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/54

  3. Wring
    Wring intransitive verb To writhe; to twist, as with anguish. « 'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow.» Shak. « Look where the sister of the king of France Sits wringin...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/55

  4. Wring
    Wring noun A writhing, as in anguish; a twisting; a griping. [ Obsolete] Bp. Hall.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/55

  5. Wring
    • (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance. • (v. t.) To distort; to pervert; to wrest. • (v. t.) Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture. • (v. t.) To bend or strain out of its position; as, to wring a mast. • (v. t...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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