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Definition of Detriments
1. detriment [n] - See also: detriment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detriments
Literary usage of Detriments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose by Charles Mackay (1872)
"houses, case, detriments, &c. ; so we rise and fall in this world, ebb and flow,
in and out, reared and dejected, lead a troublesome life, subject to many ..."
2. A Tour in Tartan-land by Cuthbert Bede (1863)
"... Increase of Tourists — Fortune's Favourites — Detriments to an Enchanted Land —
The Banquet Hall— The Puzzled Waiter— Is it Onion? ..."
3. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1834)
"These detriments are all paid to the cook. ... I have been told, that lately
these " detriments" have not been introduced in the accounts in one sum, ..."
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