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Definition of Nonconsumption
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconsumption
Literary usage of Nonconsumption
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1811)
"At first these had only been partial, but now they were become universal, and
the nonimportation and nonconsumption agreements included the usual penalties ..."
2. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... and Nonconsumption Agreement. I will read the second of those articles: — "That
we will neither import nor purchase any slave imported after the first ..."
3. History of Worcester, Massachusetts: From Its Earliest Settlement to by William Lincoln, Charles Hersey (1862)
"As the nonconsumption agreement prevented the sale by the merchants of the
obnoxious article, the gardens and fields were laid under contributions to supply ..."
4. A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest Records by Elroy McKendree Avery, William Abbatt (1908)
"On the twenty-seventh, non-importation and nonconsumption of British goods after
the first day of December were unanimously voted. ..."
5. A Group of Great Lawyers of Columbia County, New York by Peyton Farrell Miller (1904)
"ciation of the United Colonies," whose object was to induce all the colonies to
enter into a nonimportation, nonconsumption, and nonex- portation agreement ..."
6. The Irish Quarterly Review (1853)
"A fine time, no doubt, for nonconsumption combinations t When the same was tried
before we were found unequal to resist the ad- Terse weight of British ..."
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