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Definition of Distinguishes
1. distinguish [v] - See also: distinguish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distinguishes
Literary usage of Distinguishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"It is equally inadequate to make a distinction between internal and enema!, as
does Hofmann (similarly CE Luthardt, who distinguishes the person, ..."
2. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The same earnest struggling rush for wealth, which distinguishes London and
Liverpool, distinguishes also Melbourne, Chicago, St. Louis, and Xew York. ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"A view of business profits which distinguishes them sharply from wages, ...
Another view, which lays emphasis on risk, and distinguishes between the wages ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... of the Mosaic faith and the Grecian philosophy distinguishes the works of
Philo, which were composed, for the most part, under the reign of Augustus. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"In my opinion, any child of ordinary ability in the primary school distinguishes
half an apple from a whole one, or half an inch from a whole inch—not in ..."
6. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"CHAPTER XVI Peregrine distinguishes himself among his Schoolfellows, exposes his
Tutor, and attracts the particular Notice of the Master Thus left to the ..."
7. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the by Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow (1904)
"I should be glad to know what it is that distinguishes Connecticut religion from
common religion. Communicate, if you please, some of these particulars that ..."
8. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1866)
"Grotius distinguishes here between what may be done in the way of self-defence
and what may be done in the way of punishment. Though the law of nations will ..."