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Definition of Adventitiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adventitiously
Literary usage of Adventitiously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marriages of the Deaf in America: An Inquiry Concerning the Results of by Edward Allen Fay (1898)
"The following table shows the number and percentage of the adventitiously deaf
classified with respect to their * Thirty-five congenitally deaf persons were ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The term ' congenitally deaf usually means 'supposed to be congenitally deaf,'
and 'adventitiously deaf ' often means ' supposed to be adventitiously deaf. ..."
3. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1898)
"Partners Congenitally or adventitiously Deaf. Congenitally deaf persons whether
married to one another or to the adventitiously deaf are more liable to have ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1894)
"The average language ability of the adventitiously deaf is slightly ...
The adventitiously deaf who lose their hearing before age four or five do not seem ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1900)
"are deaf; and when one parent is adventitiously deaf and the other hearing the
percentage is 2.244. Here appears again the surprisingly large number of deaf ..."
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