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Definition of Deaf-muteness

1. Noun. Congenital deafness that results in inability to speak.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaf-muteness

Literary usage of Deaf-muteness

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

1. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1901)
"deaf-muteness from the civil and criminal point of view, ... After a rapid glance at the causes of deaf-muteness, its various degrees, and the education and ..."

2. The Diseases of the Ear: Their Diagnosis and Treatment : a Textbook of Aural by Anton Friedrich Tröltsch, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1864)
"An entire and long-continuing deaf-muteness, to. be sure, is considered by all men of good judgment as incurable; and the much boasted cures of old ..."

3. Heredity: A Psychological Study of Its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and by Théodule Ribot (1898)
"Dr. Me'niere, in a special work on this question, while admitting that in a certain number of instances the direct and immediate heredity of deaf-muteness ..."

4. Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Henry Sutherland Edwards, John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"Whether deaf-muteness dates from birth or from some accident, it has been proved in the present day that the vocal ap- paratus of the deaf-mute and that of ..."

5. A Clinical manual of the diseases of the ear by Laurence Turnbull (1872)
"[deaf-muteness ... [On the Anatomy of deaf-muteness.] Virchow's Arch., xiv. 5, 6, p. 551. 1858. ..."

6. The relations of mind and brain by Henry Calderwood (1884)
"When we speak of the stupidity and idiocy of Cioccio, we must consider that " deaf-muteness " implies a series of barriers to the development of ..."

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