'extirpate' in The Making of the English Working Class | Bookmarker

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(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery

a movement which succeeded, very largely, in extirpating this insidious ‘violation’ of the Lord’s Day

—p.355 The Transforming Power of the Cross (350) by E.P. Thompson

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