Lexicographical Neighbors of Detrimentals
Literary usage of Detrimentals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Eligibles and detrimentals). Sons which are socially good and bad parties, to be
introduced to daughters with a view of matrimony. ..."
2. Beauty is Power (1871)
"THE USE OF detrimentals. HE arrangements of modern society are obviously so much
more due to artificial than to natural selection, that it would be simply ..."
3. England Under Seven Administrations by Albany Fonblanque (1837)
"SECESSION OF THE detrimentals FROM THE GREY MINISTRY. THE preceding article on
the Grey Ministry, was written under a conviction that things were coming to ..."
4. Essays in Defence of Women (1868)
"THE USE OF detrimentals. r HE arrangements of modern society are obviously so
much more due to artificial than to natural selection, that it would be simply ..."
5. Foster's Cabinet Miscellany: A Series of Publications on Various Subjects by Theodore Foster (1836)
"These " detrimentals," which translated into plain English means younger sons,
with a hundred and fifty, or two hundred a-year,—are of necessity a much more ..."
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