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Definition of Mainsprings
1. mainspring [n] - See also: mainspring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainsprings
Literary usage of Mainsprings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1890)
"I. The two mainsprings of human action.—The egoistic instinct and the social
instinct.—Motives for not weakening the social instinct. ..."
2. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1890)
"I. The two mainsprings of human action.—The egoistic instinct and the social
instinct.—Motives for not weakening the social instinct. ..."
3. A Discourse on the Studies of the University by Adam Sedgwick (1835)
"men have felt them, and made them the topics of exhortation and the mainsprings
of national honour, how much more ought they to affect us who are assembled ..."
4. Europe at War: A "red Book" of the Greatest War of History; why and how (1914)
"... BACKGROUNDS AND mainsprings OF THE STRUGGLE BY LOUIS E. VAN NORMAN FOR the
causes of the titanic struggle moving Europe, it is necessary to go back a ..."
5. Lights and Shades of the East: Or a Study of the Life of Baboo Harrischander by Framji Bomanji (1863)
"CAUSES OF A WANT OF THE mainsprings OF SUCCESS IN THE CHARACTER OF "YOUNG INDIA.
... PERHAPS the deficiency, or even perfect want of the mainsprings of all ..."
6. A History of the Great War, 1914- by Briggs Davenport (1916)
"CHAPTER VIII THE mainsprings OF BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS THE GREAT STATES OF
CONTINENTAL EUROPE Minor States as Safeguards to the Political ..."
7. Public Papers of Governor by New York (State). Governor (1898)
"... understand that in some member of their sex have often centered those
recollections which, sanctified by years, have been the mainsprings of the world. ..."
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