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Definition of Treacherousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treacherousness
Literary usage of Treacherousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transaction by Texas Medical Association (1903)
"... catgut as a suture material in some abdominal cases, I was tempted to give my
paper this title, "The treacherousness of Catgut in Abdominal Surgery. ..."
2. Good Words edited by Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod (1886)
"And yet he began to see—slowly yet surely, as he stood there—he began to see how
Dorigen had discerned the treacherousness— he could call it by no milder ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"Specimens of her script in the two states by their remarkable similarity point
a moral upon the treacherousness of popular testimony as to changes of ..."
4. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fredric Solomon (1986)
"Whatever the characteristics of warring groups initially, each group, in its
effort to combat what it perceives as the treacherousness and warlike- ness of ..."
5. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"We have trusted our instincts long enough to sound the depths of their treacherousness.
We have followed nature to the last ditch and ditch water. ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... danced before them that they did not follow, to find too late the treacherousness
of the phantasm and the rueful consequences of avaricious ambition. ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... to me of his travels, Fox could not recollect the name of a particular town
in Holland, and was much vexed at the treacherousness of his memory. ..."
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