Definition of Indispensables

1. Noun. (plural of indispensable) ¹

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Definition of Indispensables

1. indispensable [n] - See also: indispensable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indispensables

indiscretions
indiscriminant
indiscriminantly
indiscriminate
indiscriminately
indiscriminateness
indiscriminating
indiscriminatingly
indiscrimination
indiscriminative
indiscussed
indiscussible
indispensability
indispensable
indispensableness
indispensables (current term)
indispensably
indispensible
indispersed
indisposable
indispose
indisposed
indisposed(p)
indisposedness
indisposes
indisposing
indisposition
indispositions
indisputability
indisputable

Literary usage of Indispensables

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and by Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Colville Colville of Culross, Caroline Sheridan Norton (1849)
"... the Rainy and Tornado Seasons — Difficulty of getting a fresh stock of Work-box indispensables — Set about making Little Shoes — Reluctance of ..."

2. Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative by Herbert Spencer (1891)
"Nevertheless, he adds—"j'ai réussi, je crois, à écarter l'attaque de M. Herbert Spencer, et à sauver le fond par des sacrifices indispensables mais ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"My dear Cranmer, I will restore peace and unanimity to your household. Teach your daughters the true doctrine of indispensables. ..."

4. Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law: Being an Essay Supplemental To: (1) The by Frederic Seebohm (1902)
"... his ' three ' indispensables' were ' a bothy, his herdsman's dog. and a knife;' and the three indispensables of his bothy were a roof-tree, ..."

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