¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Avocations
1. avocation [n] - See also: avocation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avocations
Literary usage of Avocations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Principles of Education by George Herbert Betts (1912)
"Classes of avocations avocations follow almost as many lines as there are varieties
of ... It will be avocations. serviceable in our present study, however, ..."
2. Errors in the Use of English by William Ballantyne Hodgson (1882)
"And again: 'By the avocations of the schism, by foreign arms, and popular tumults,
... Professional avocations, the going with my family abroad, ..."
3. Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. by Vicesimus Knox (1805)
"... avocations. AMONG the many modes of assuming consequence, adopted by men of
little sense and great vanity, is 'that of being always in a hurry. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"already made the same statement, where he contrasts Pope's “ six years' Retirement
from all pleasurable avocations “ —of which THE ..."
5. Report by Maharashtra (India) Committee on Teacher Education in Maharashtra State (1884)
"Showing the number of those pursuing different avocations, the number of deaths
in each, the ratio to the living, and the aggregate and average ages of ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1794)
"... avocations had prevented the earlier appearance of this article, if we had
not been enabled, by means of that delay, to examine the fécond edition of ..."
7. Vocations for Girls by Mary Augusta Laselle, Katherine Ellis Wiley (1913)
"XV VOCATIONS PLUS avocations A GIRL'S real character is revealed very clearly by
the manner in ... For them, also, many delightful avocations are open. ..."
Other Resources:
