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Definition of Dabblings
1. dabbling [n] - See also: dabbling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dabblings
Literary usage of Dabblings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Successful Business-men: Short Accounts of the Rise of Famous Firms, with by Alexander Hay Japp (1892)
"Little thought the youth's father, a corn merchant and miller at Reading, what
the dabblings of his son in garden-seed raising and selling were likely to ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"at fencing, leaping, running, and other manly exercises, he found few rivals;
and his dabblings in architecture ami botany were at least аз notable as his ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"She next took up vicious schemes of self-cure and began her dabblings in mental
healing. Out of these grew an abnormal sensibility. ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"What is exquisitely fanciful and airy in the genuine artist is replaced in his
rival by an attempt to overpower us by dabblings in the charnel-house and ..."
5. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Our national reverence for Newton's scientific achievements has deterred us from
laughing at his dabblings in the interpretation of prophecy ; and, indeed, ..."
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