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Definition of Beginnings
1. beginning [n] - See also: beginning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beginnings
Literary usage of Beginnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"The remaining selections deal with American state beginnings. The first (259)
reproduces the important early constitutional provisions of the American ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"For, while they may not have been direct contributors to the beginnings of our
drama, they helped to urge these beginnings onwards in the direction in which ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Organized Labor in America by George Gorham Groat (1916)
"While current conditions determine largely their specific nature, the beginnings
are to be found only by tracing the lines of development far back into ..."
4. Old English Scholarship in England from 1566-1800 by Eleanor Nathalie Adams (1917)
"CHAPTER I The Beginnings of Old English Scholar: ship in the Sixteenth Century
... This interest was, in its beginnings, anti-l quarian and controversial. ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1889)
"CHAPTER X Beginnings OF CIVILIZATION THE Round Table soon heard of the challenge
... In various quiet nooks and corners I had the beginnings of all sorts of ..."
6. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"Beginnings of Civilization. — By means of myth the Greeks endeavoured to explain
the origins of the various features of civilization as they did other ..."
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