Definition of Callings

1. Noun. (plural of calling) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Callings

1. calling [n] - See also: calling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Callings

calling
calling-card
calling-cards
calling cards
calling in
calling into question
calling name
calling off
calling out
calling to mind
calling to order
calling together
calling up
callingly
callings (current term)
calliope
calliopes
calliopsis
callipash
callipee
callipees
calliper
callipered
callipering
callipers
callipygean
callipygian
callipygous
callisection

Literary usage of Callings

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

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1904)
"CHAPTER XXX OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESS callings That among the Americans all ... industrial callings—That aristocracy may be engendered by manufactures. ..."

2. Social Economy by James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1872)
"RESTRAINTS ON callings. THERE are certain callings which any man may enter on, if he is able to take them in hand, and can get lia living by them. ..."

3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Qualifications for the exercise of callings affecting health.-'12 —The right to pursue the following callings is regulated under the plea of protection of ..."

4. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1917)
"The common law has long regula-te'd'' certain public callings by imposing ... These obligations incident to public callings, upon which the public depend ..."

5. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848)
"Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts. Hitherto it has been our chief object to examine hab- in their relation to the senses separately; ..."

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