Lexicographical Neighbors of Defoliations
Literary usage of Defoliations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by Sir William Blackstone, John Williams, Richard Burn (1791)
"... of alienations by will, and permitted the owner of lands in his lifetime to
make various defoliations of their profits, as prudence, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"Mercury produces directly the same defoliations of the skin. Syphilis excites
inflammation of the periosteum and caries of the bones. Mercury does the same. ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"All these changes are so many defoliations of the poem. The word swords is far
more poetical than blades, which may as well be understood of knives as ..."
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