Definition of Brevities

1. Noun. (plural of brevity) ¹

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Definition of Brevities

1. brevity [n] - See also: brevity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brevities

brevic.
brevicollis
brevier
breviers
brevilingual
breviloquence
breviloquent
breviped
brevipen
brevipennate
brevipens
brevirostral
brevirostrate
brevis
brevitic
brevities (current term)
brevity
brevium
brevotoxins
brew
brew up
brewable
brewage
brewages
brewed
brewer
brewer's droop
brewer's mole
brewer's rice
brewer's yeast

Literary usage of Brevities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"THERAPEUTIC brevities. Under this title, the "Medical Age," Feb. 10, 1890, publishes some excellent gleanings. From the "British Med. ..."

2. The Bookman (1897)
"BOOKMAN brevities. We have received from Messrs. Harper and Brothers two little paper-covered plays, the first being A Previous ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1833)
"—brevities. BT CHRISTOPHER SHORT. SMALL FEET.—I passionately admire small feet—just such feet, fair reader, as I dare be sworn belong to thee—encased in a ..."

4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"... at a reasonable price, and in comparative abundance. — Amer. Jour. Science, July, 1870. CHEMICAL brevities. Preparation of Anthracene. ..."

5. The Port and City of Philadelphia by Frank Hamilton Taylor, Wilfred Harvey Schoff (1912)
"Industrial brevities The largest single industry of the city is the Baldwin Locomotive Works, which gives employment to 12000 to 15000 men and turns out ..."

6. The Ohio Journal of Education by Ohio State Teachers Association (1857)
"brevities. tt?" Theodore Hook once said to a literary man, at whose table his publisher hal become intoxicated, " My dear sir, you s«em to have emptied your ..."

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