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Definition of Origins
1. origin [n] - See also: origin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Origins
Literary usage of Origins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution of Early Christianity: A Genetic Study of First-century by Shirley Jackson Case (1914)
"Must the student of Christian origins relate the new religion thus closely to its
... The problem of origins is a comparatively s,imple one when ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"STUART-GLENNIE ON THE origins OF MATRIARCHY. TO the second volume of Miss Garnett's
Women of Turkey and their Folk-lore (" Jewish and Moslem Women"), ..."
3. The Popular Ballad by Francis Barton Gummere (1907)
"Now it is clear that only a definition by origins really defines. When Aristotle
sets off from actual, artistic, deliberate poetry a mass of antecedent ..."
4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"STUART-GLENNIE ON THE origins OF MA TRIARCHY. ... this puzzling institution as
an exemplification of his general theory of the origins of civilisation, ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"ARYAN origins.* THE general problem of Aryan origins is commonly treated as if
it involved three other problems : the problem, namely, first, of »the origin ..."
6. Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord by Joseph Ryland Whitaker (1899)
"origins OF THE CRANIAL NERVES. The Cranial Nerves have superficial and deep origins.
By the term superficial origins is meant the points at which the nerves ..."
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