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Definition of Breakings
1. breaking [n] - See also: breaking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakings
Literary usage of Breakings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"BURGLARY AND OTHER breakings.1 § 90. Introduction. 91-100. ... Statutory breakings.
119120. Remaining and Connected Questions. § 90. How defined. ..."
2. An Essay on the Origin and Prospects of Man by Thomas Hope (1831)
"In organized and living entities of the vegetable sort the saps descending are
by partial impediments and breakings out, and the saps ascending by partial ..."
3. The Fireside Encyclopædia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most (1878)
"... That have more of love than lovings ; Mischiefs done with such a winning
Archness that we prize such sinning; breakings dire of plates and glasses, ..."
4. Sailing Directions for the Coast of Brazil, Included Between Maranhao and by Ernest Mouchez, Albin René Roussin (1875)
"Perhaps the existence of this ridge, immediately fronting the coast, is to be
attributed partly to the surf and constant breakings of the sea upon the shore ..."
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