Definition of Destructivity

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destructivity

destructing
destruction
destruction fire
destruction permit
destructionist
destructionists
destructions
destructive
destructive-metabolic(a)
destructive criticism
destructive distillation
destructive metabolism
destructively
destructiveness
destructivities
destructivity (current term)
destructor
destructors
destructs
destructuration
destructure
destructured
destructures
destructuring
destrudo
destruxin
desuccinylation
desudation
desudations
desuetude

Literary usage of Destructivity

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

1. Seismology by John Milne (1908)
"To compare these three shocks we require to know, not the destructivity at the epicentrum or at ... With such data destructivity curves may be constructed, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1889)
"... which might be called the "destructiveness" of the wave, or perhaps, its "destructivity" as indicating a little more clearly the power to destroy. ..."

3. Government War Contracts by John Franklin Crowell (1920)
"... 1917, to the Senate Committee on Commerce, said: The rate of destructivity of the submarine has mounted steadily even beyond our calculations. ..."

4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1868)
"... the destructivity, the constructivity, the secuti- vity. I thank the positive philosophy for it in the name of our mother tongue; but without wishing to ..."

5. Preliminary Economic Studies of the War by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division for Economics and History (1920)
"... the Shipping Board, in its memorandum of May 5, 1917, to the Senate Committee on Commerce, said: The rate of destructivity of the submarine has mounted ..."

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