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Definition of Bruisings
1. bruising [n] - See also: bruising
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bruisings
Literary usage of Bruisings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk and Hero Tales by Alfred Trübner Nutt, James MacDougall (1891)
"Then he gave him further terrible bruisings. The Brownie cried, " Let me go, ...
He now gave the Brownie further dreadful blows and bruisings. ..."
2. Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected with Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics by Richard von Volkmann, New Sydenham Society (1876)
"Naturally we would not deny that there may be traumatic puerperal inflammations
in the above souse, or even that the bruisings of the soft parts in the ..."
3. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"And to be sure we receive many wounds and bruisings from him and his, for we feel
and groan under them daily, and all the brotherhood in the world with us. ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"... be the assertion of a still undisciplined self ; but tenderness is the finer
essence which is only crushed out of it by the continued bruisings of life. ..."
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