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Definition of Hothousing
1. hothouse [v] - See also: hothouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hothousing
Literary usage of Hothousing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings on American Federal Government by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1909)
"The early assertion by Congress of the power to levy import duties not simply as
taxes for raising revenue, but for the admitted purpose of hothousing into ..."
2. Little Folk of Many Lands by Louise Jordan Miln (1899)
"Indeed, the forced obedience of children seems, when we study human history, as
artificial, if as beneficent, as the potting and hothousing of flowers. ..."
3. Voices of Perfectionism: Perfectionistic Gifted Adolescents in a Rural by Patricia A. Schuler (2000)
"... (1981) believed "hothousing" or giving babies intensive, early academic training
could lead to perfectionistic, troubled children. ..."
4. Reciprocity with Canada: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance of the by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (1911)
"... by the Government ought not to ask the Government to quit hothousing other
people. Mr. HASTINGS. No, sir; there has been no pie to cut. The CHAIRMAN. ..."
5. Interior Department Appropriation Bill, 1924: Hearing[s] Before Subcommittee by United States, Congress, Committee on Appropriations, House (1922)
"You can not expect the hothousing system of the ordinary Indian boarding school
to afford visible results on the reservations immediately. ..."
6. Journal by California Legislature (1883)
"Or, rather, let us not go on always hothousing their lives and ideas of nature,
in a word, narrowing down associations to puerile and artificial human ..."
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