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Definition of Dulling
1. dull [v] - See also: dull
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dulling
Literary usage of Dulling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"Psychological Basis of the Law—The more General Laws of (a) dulling of Sensitivity
with Repetition, and (b) Satiety— Critical Study. ..."
2. Senescence, the last half of life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"... and sex—The dawn of old age in women—Dangers of the disparity when December
weds May—Sexual hygiene for the old—Mental effects of the dulling of ..."
3. Salad for the Social by Frederick Saunders (1856)
"Some dreary expositors of the Gospel, possibly sent to challenge our patience,
seem to be endowed with at least one faculty, that of dulling all its bright ..."
4. Smoking and Drinking by James Parton (1868)
"The brain, freed from the dulling, lowering influence, regains a portion of its
natural vivacity; and that vivacity frequently finds worthy objects upon ..."
5. A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit by August Schleicher, Herbert Bendall (1874)
"dulling of a to e and du bef. lost conson. and in fine. For a there occurs a
dulled fm. in e, in certain cases in the middle of a word, when a has been ..."
6. The Clinical Journal (1898)
"... and on the other hand its outer extremity is subject on both sides to identical
dulling agencies, whereas its inner half is influenced by the strong ..."
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