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Definition of Callings
1. calling [n] - See also: calling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callings
Literary usage of Callings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1904)
"CHAPTER XXX OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESS callings That among the Americans all ...
industrial callings—That aristocracy may be engendered by manufactures. ..."
2. Social Economy by James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1872)
"RESTRAINTS ON callings. THERE are certain callings which any man may enter on,
if he is able to take them in hand, and can get lia living by them. ..."
3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Qualifications for the exercise of callings affecting health.-'12 —The right to
pursue the following callings is regulated under the plea of protection of ..."
4. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1917)
"The common law has long regula-te'd'' certain public callings by imposing ...
These obligations incident to public callings, upon which the public depend ..."
5. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848)
"Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts. Hitherto it has been our
chief object to examine hab- in their relation to the senses separately; ..."
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