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Definition of Pervasions
1. pervasion [n] - See also: pervasion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pervasions
Literary usage of Pervasions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings by David Masson (1873)
"To procure the necessary supplies, he had been induced at last, by the pervasions
of Wentworth, Hamilton, and Laud, to do what he had hoped never again to ..."
2. The Panoplist, and Missionary Herald (1819)
"Thus, • with their fixed,pervasions, they have their sceptical conceits. By isions
they can dismiss the merits of the case from all consideration; ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"... began to drink first, using all good pervasions, their superstition was such,
no saying would serve, they must all forthwith dye or yeeld up the citie. ..."
4. "The Story of My Life." by Egerton Ryerson, John George Hodgins (1883)
"... that there should be an intermediate class of seminaries in connection with
the different religious pervasions, who have ability and enterprise to ..."
5. The New Universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of by James Hardie, A. Citizen (1802)
"... whether instilled by education, or taken up by reflection ; whether more or
less absurd ; as a weak mortal can no more be answerable for his pervasions, ..."
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