¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deflations
1. deflation [n] - See also: deflation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deflations
Literary usage of Deflations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Chronological Treatise Upon the Seventy Weeks of Daniel: Wherein is by Benjamin Marshall (1725)
"... years of Jeremiah to the deflations of the WHOLE land, or of the land's being
... deflations i Which were however begun 18 years before» and which ..."
2. The Logic and Utility of Mathematics: With the Best Methods of Instruction by Charles Davies (1851)
"metaphorical All definitions are of names, and of names only; but in some
definitions, it is clearly apparent, deflations that nothing is intended except to ..."
3. The Shaking of the Olive-tree: The Remaining Works of that Incomparable by Joseph Hall (1660)
"... the Earth of her unclean inhabitants : deflations by Earth-quakes which have
... yet all wrought by the divine hand : what deflations he hath wrought ..."