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Definition of Carnivorousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnivorousness
Literary usage of Carnivorousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1885)
"... I am strongly disposed to connect much of ils peculiar manifestations with
the Lombard's habits of eating and drinking, especially his carnivorousness. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"This extreme carnivorousness produces, as is natural, an absence of sensibility,
which is displayed even in the most delicate individuals of the species. ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1877)
"... (animal rage, carnivorousness in political economy,— competition, as of horses
with swinging spurs at their sides in the Roman corso, in science, ..."
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