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Definition of Preventatives
1. preventative [n] - See also: preventative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventatives
Literary usage of Preventatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Asiatic Turkey: Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus by Grattan Geary (1878)
"... of the Euphrates—The citadel and the barracks—Trophies taken from the Persians—The
plague—Outbreak last year—Causes and only preventatives—Education in ..."
2. Through Asiatic Turkey, narrative of a journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus by Grattan Geary (1878)
"... the Persians—The plague—Outbreak last year—Causes and only preventatives—Education
in Baghdad—The Jewish school — Examination of the pupils — Prejudices ..."
3. Christianity and Modern Infidelity: Their Relative Intellectual Claims Compared by Williams Morgan (1859)
"In dealing with the soul and its impulses, have external physical preventatives
and barriers been ever successful ? Is the thief made less a thief by ..."
4. Disputed Handwriting: An Exhaustive, Valuable, and Comprehensive Work Upon by Jerome Buell Lavay, Berkeley (Calif.). Police Dept (1909)
"... Mechanical and Clerical preventatives. The following chapter is written by Mr.
William C. Shaw, of Chicago, the well-known handwriting expert and expert ..."
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