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Definition of Attritions
1. attrition [n] - See also: attrition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attritions
Literary usage of Attritions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Beecher, Henry Ward, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872)
"God prepared it for this use by slow attritions. And in strict analogy with this
has been the development of men. But when anything starts out anew in ..."
2. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1873)
"This world is full of discords and attritions all the time. Selfishness is
double-bladed, and is continually cutting and piercing both ways. ..."
3. Medicina Statica:: Being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius, Translated Into by Santorio Santorio, James Keill, John Quincy (1720)
"The continued Attritions of the Parts which are much greater, a; was faid before,
when awake than ..."
4. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... »eat the top of mount Ida. and knowing thai he lui ceived an aversion to her,
began to study be hould regain hi* attritions, and make I amiable to him. ..."
5. The Publishers Weekly by R.R. Bowker Company, Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association (1892)
"A new edition, incorporating the author's latest notes, attritions and emendations.
4 vole. The Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"themselves; and I therefore conclude that thi attritions and repulsions of electric
conductors are not exerted between the currents themselves, ..."
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