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Definition of Operants
1. operant [n] - See also: operant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operants
Literary usage of Operants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester by James Joseph Sylvester (1908)
"... that the general conclusions contained in the text above would remain valid
for a much more general class of operants than those there defined; ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1878)
"Your purpose is to unite science with love; to vindicate human sympathy at the
bar of educated reason ; to make religion and political economy co-operants ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1902)
"Your purpose is to unite science with love, to vindicate human sympathy at the
bar of educated reason, to make religion and political economy co-operants in ..."
4. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"No fractious operants ever turned out for half the tyranny, which this necessity
exercised upon us. Half a dozen jests in a day (bating Sundays too), why, ..."
5. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1852)
"No Egyptian taskmaster ever devised a slavery like to that, our slavery.
No fractious operants ever turned out for half the tyranny which this necessity ..."
6. The Works of Charles Lamb: to which are prefixed his letters, and a sketch by Charles Lamb (1871)
"No fractious operants ever turned out for half the tyranny which this necessity
exercised upon us. Half a dozen jests in a day, (bating Sundays too,) why, ..."
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