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Definition of Mutisms
1. mutism [n] - See also: mutism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutisms
Literary usage of Mutisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Association Review by American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (1905)
"... a practice that was at one time common with the language teacher and that was
one of the principal sources of the so-called deaf mutisms. ..."
2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1907)
"I have come to the conclusion that the so-called mutisms are not the result of
signs, but that the person who has never heard uses the peculiar idioms that ..."
3. Education of Deaf Children: Evidence of Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander by Edward Miner Gallaudet, Alexander Graham Bell (1892)
"The peculiarities in his phraseology are sometimes called the " deaf-mutisms,"
and their origin has been ascribed by some writers to the inversions of the ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"The uncontrollable outcries which usually marked the close of her hysterical
mutisms were pitiful to hear; they were brought on. as a rule, ..."
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