Lexicographical Neighbors of Deterrently
Literary usage of Deterrently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China: Its History, Arts and Literature by Frank Brinkley (1902)
"... is attested for all time, but the mysteries from which its roots spring must
be deterrently inscrutable to the disciple of such a creed as Confucianism. ..."
2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1914)
"of their proximity act deterrently upon the efforts of the local union to improve
the conditions of employment.45 The extent of local territorial ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"... the Unity of place in France to this vexatious custom, as its abuse in our
own country may have acted deterrently on the advancement of scenic reform. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"On those railways where fast trains do not take third- class passengers, or
third-class carriages are deterrently uncomfortable and répulsive, ..."
5. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"Here the beauty of that to many people deterrently austere and awe-enshrouded
subject, mathematics, comes in. For it enables us to do that most important ..."
6. Our Eastern Question: America's Contact with the Orient and the Trend of by Thomas Franklin Millard (1916)
"The only noticeable influence they have exerted is deterrently upon the policy
of the United States, and to retard naval and military preparedness by ..."
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