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Definition of Discomforting
1. discomfort [v] - See also: discomfort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discomforting
Literary usage of Discomforting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays, Philosophical and Psychological: In Honor of William James by William James, Columbia University (1908)
"I shall use discomforting or annoying or troublers to mean those states of affairs
which, in the case of us human beings, are repelled, disliked, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"... exertion and quickened respiration caused the skin to be suffused with moisture,
and that this gave instant relief from a discomforting sense of heat. ..."
3. Physical Education by Archibald Maclaren, Wallace Maclaren (1895)
"... exertion and quickened respiration caused the <kin to be suffused with moisture,
and that this gave instant relief from a discomforting sense of heat. ..."
4. Psychology: Normal and Morbid by Charles Arthur Mercier (1901)
"All exceptions to rules are discomforting; and are discomforting by reason of
their incongruity with the cases that follow the rule. ..."
5. Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction a Report of the Surgeon by C. Everett Koop, M.D., DIANE Publishing Company (1988)
"If longer periods of deprivation are associated with a discomforting ... The drug
effect which enables such discomforting withdrawal is physical dependence. ..."
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