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Definition of Environing
1. environ [v] - See also: environ
Lexicographical Neighbors of Environing
Literary usage of Environing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Russian Immigrant by Jerome Davis (1922)
"CHAPTER III environing ECONOMIC FORCES WE have seen that the economic and social
conditions of the Russian newcomers force them to accept almost any opening ..."
2. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1918)
"Problem Phenomena, Their Constituent Elements, and Their environing Conditions.—Each
of the higher sciences in the hierarchy has to deal with three sets of ..."
3. A System of Psychology by Daniel Greenleaf Thompson (1884)
"FEELINGS AS DEVELOPED BY environing OBJECTS. § 16. No feeling is independent
either of organism or environment. All feelings attendant upon efferent ..."
4. History of Pittsburgh and Environs, from Prehistoric Days to the Beginning by George Thornton Fleming (1922)
"... county and environing community fulminated their anathemas at the devoted head
of the sacrilegious Youngson, who feebly replied that nothing but the ..."
5. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"the river flows slowly, and looking the blacker for its environing fringe of rime.
Reeds and rushes, sedge and weed, are jewelled by Nature's profuse hand, ..."
6. That Unknown Country: Or, What Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment by Lyman Abbott (1888)
"God's Word Alone Enlightens Us.—The Difficulties environing the Subject Do Not
Alter the Declared Fact.—Sin, Responsibility, and Penalty, Inevitable. ..."
7. That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment (1889)
"God's Word Alone Enlightens Us.—The Difficulties environing the Subject Do Not
Alter the Declared Fact.—Sin, Responsibility, and Penalty, Inevitable. ..."
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