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Definition of Obsolescing
1. obsolesce [v] - See also: obsolesce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsolescing
Literary usage of Obsolescing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1886)
"valves as obsolescing, rendered rudimentary in man by the erect head, which in
the lemur stage depended. The rudimentary azygos valves may be a recent ..."
2. Sewerage: The Designing, Constructing and Maintaining of Sewerage Systems ...by Amory Prescott Folwell by Amory Prescott Folwell (1922)
"... in order better to balance the treatment of the subject, the space devoted to
those methods that are obsolescing has been reduced, while considerable ..."
3. Masques and Mummers: Essays on the Theatre of Here and Now by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger (1899)
"The blonde is disappearing, obsolescing. Society is paying the penalty of unnatural
selection. Science discovers, to its surprise, that Darwin's theory ..."
4. The Federal Income Tax by Thomas Sewall Adams, Thomas Reed Powell (1921)
"... which is called obsolescence by supercession, or (b) The disappearance of the
market for the thing produced by, or sold under, the obsolescing property. ..."
5. The Classic Preachers of the English Church: Lectures Delivered at St. James by John Edward Kempe (1877)
"It is hardly to be wondered at that the energetic enforcement of a rapidly
obsolescing system—even by a man so saintly and tender that he mingled his tears ..."
6. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
"Intermediate between the English which I have been treating of, and English of
recent emergence, stands that which is obsolescing. A few examples of phrases ..."
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