"common" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some have claimed that convicted common scolds had to wear such a device as a preventive or punitive measure.
- None of these laws carry the distinctive punishment reserved for the common scold.
- The common punishment for being a common scold was forcing the woman found guilty under water over and over.
- Some people say that common scolds had to wear a scold's bridle to stop them from scolding.
- No legal source known mentions the use of scold's bridals to punish a common scold.
- It also says that "strumpets" (prostitutes) and common scolds were ducked there.
- The common law included the offence of being a common scold.
- The local clergymen campaigned to have her punished as a common scold.
- The offence of being a common scold has also become obsolete in the United States because only women could commit it.
- None of these laws have any punishment similar to those traditionally used for the common scold.
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