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If we refer to Bacon we shall be reminded of Johnson's warning, that by "hasty detruncation the general tendency of a sentence may be changed."

From Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Cut away any one, and there would be not a perilous gash, but a detruncation fatal to the living frame.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various