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Definition of Etiolating
1. etiolate [v] - See also: etiolate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etiolating
Literary usage of Etiolating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... to the discipline of the average and low elements of human nature, and better
adapted to etiolating or perverting the superior elements of human nature. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1844)
"The etiolating influence of the green rays was observed, as well as the power
which plants possessed of sending out shoots of a great length, ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"... as described by sir George Staunton; of etiolating or blanching the leaves of
the more acrid vegetables, with the various Uses of different leaves, ..."
4. The Japan Expedition: Japan and Around the World; an Account of Three Visits by J. Willett Spalding (1855)
"... an etiolating hand, that will crush them, if they dare leave their craft,
until half engulfed. The English and French squadrons visited ..."
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