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Definition of Abruptions
1. abruption [n] - See also: abruption
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abruptions
Literary usage of Abruptions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"These vertical sections, or abruptions of our strata, are by • no means confined
to the steeps that line our coast; the remaining boundary of our basaltic ..."
2. The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science by Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good (1818)
"These vertical sections or abruptions of our strata are by no means confined to
the steeps that line our coast; the remaining boundary of our basaltic area ..."
3. Biographical and Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott (1903)
"He was greatly afraid of falling into the cantilena of Metas- tasio, and sought
to avoid this by sudden abruptions of language, by an eccentric use of the ..."
4. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (1844)
"It had no impetuosity, hurry, or vehemence, — no bursts or sudden turns or
abruptions, like that of Burke; and though eminently smooth and melodious, ..."
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