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Definition of Exterminations
1. extermination [n] - See also: extermination
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exterminations
Literary usage of Exterminations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"A paper entitled "Geological Exterminations," by Charles B. Warring, MA, Ph.D., was
read by the Secretary, in the author's absence in Canada. ..."
2. Nojoque: A Question for a Continent by Hinton Rowan Helper (1867)
"... REMOVALS—BANISHMENTS—EXPULSIONS—Exterminations. If the black man is feeble,
and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, ..."
3. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"Exterminations. — At tho close of each period of the Paleozoic ages, there was
an extermination of a large number of living »i>ecies. ..."
4. New Text-book of Geology: Designed for Schools and Academies by James Dwight Dana (1883)
"There were widespread exterminations, closing some of the ages, as the Carboniferous
and the Reptilian; there were less general exterminations, ..."
5. Report of the Trial of the Queen: At the Prosecution of the Rt. Hon. the by Charles Stewart Parnell, Ireland Court of King's Bench (1881)
"The great exterminations which have been in the past, those exterminations which,
as I said before, have laid waste vast districts in our country, ..."
6. Report (1905)
"The gain or loss of all this or of preventing these exterminations I am not ...
I presume in some exterminations like those of the rattlesnake and the wolf ..."
7. The Past a Prophecy of the Future, and Other Sermons by Samuel Henry Kellogg (1904)
"It may be called the law of exterminations. In this phrase I refer to the ...
The causes of these various exterminations were different in different cases. ..."
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