2. Noun. (plural of deviate) ¹
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Definition of Deviates
1. deviate [v] - See also: deviate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deviates
Literary usage of Deviates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conservation of the Child: A Manual of Clinical Psychology, Presenting by Arthur Holmes (1912)
"All Moral deviates are Corrigible or Incorrigible.— Just as we have classified
all mental deviates as curable or incurable, so we may now divide the moral ..."
2. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1807)
"An inverted period, which deviates from the natural train of ideas, requires to
be marked in fome ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The fourth type of text deviates largely from those already mentioned ; its
history and true ... deviates ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... strictly fair when he addressed his enemy as "thou last great prophet of
tautology," and makes Flecknoe extol him because "he never deviates into sense ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"enzyme, deviates considerably from what we should expect on the basis of the law
of mass action. In the inversion of sucrose by invertase, for example, ..."
6. The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Eugenia Stanhope, Charles Strachey, Annette Calthrop (1901)
"My own health varies, as usual, but never deviates into good. God bless you, and
send you better! LETTER CCCLXXXII BLACKHEATH, October 4, 1764. ..."
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