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vb. (past participle of bring upon English)
Usage examples of "brought upon".
He had been a faithful counsellor and adviser to King Richard, and perhaps it was this, as much and more than his roundabout connection with the plot, that brought upon him the punishment he suffered.
He must bear meekly for God whatsoever ills are brought upon him by others.
But to stare straight at this life that we've brought upon ourselves and rejected, absolutely smash up the old idols of ourselves, that we sh'll never do.
I could wish you no worse fate than you have brought upon yourself.
When the young men had both died, and had thus averted the fate which their misdeeds would else have brought upon the tribe, the warriors took their bodies and bore them away for burial honors, the soldiers looking on in silence.
The Emperor of Constantinople, in opposition to his neighbours, sent 10,000 Turks into Greece, which could not be got out again when the war was at an end, but gave the first beginning to the servitude and captivity which those infidels brought upon that country.
He arrested, insulted, imprisoned, banished, and shot people, until the patience even of the citizens of Richmond gave way, and pressure was brought upon Jefferson Davis to secure the suppression of his satellite.
But how could he have done this, had he, as he might have done, avoided the death brought upon him for such a reason?
What is the consequence, then, when we esteem the things that are brought upon us to be evils?
If thou hadst once entered into the mind of Jesus, and hadst tasted yea even a little of his tender love, then wouldst thou care nought for thine own convenience or inconvenience, but wouldst rather rejoice at trouble brought upon thee, because the love of Jesus maketh a man to despise himself.
And as I saw therein the lotos-faces vanish, I longed for nets that I might capture them and learn from them the secrets which the moon had brought upon the night.
The most honourable the embassy of Monsieur the Duke of Austria brought upon the Cardinal none of these cares.
Is not the darkness they have brought upon the land to confound Twala and cover our flight, darkness even in the hour of the full moon, yet before your eyes?
Inevitable, perhaps, a disease brought upon itself by a nation which had grown too powerful too quickly.
Mary's owed much if not all of the church's prosperity to the blind Lord Falworth, and now he was paying it back with a haven of refuge from the ruin that his former patron had brought upon himself by giving shelter to Sir John Dale.