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Definition of Paralyzingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paralyzingly
Literary usage of Paralyzingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Confederate War: Its Causes and Its Conduct; a Narrative by George Cary Eggleston (1910)
"As Grant was paralyzingly dominated by Halleck's interference at every critical
moment in his western campaigns, and as Farragut was restrained from ..."
2. Sixty Years of the Theater: An Old Critic's Memories by John Ranken Towse (1916)
"It was awful—utterly, abominably un-Shakespearean, if you will, but supremely,
paralyzingly real—only great genius, imaginative and executive, ..."
3. The End of the War by Walter Edward Weyl (1918)
"The task of attaining such a peace is paralyzingly difficult, but we hope and
believe that it is not impossible. But to attain it requires a larger spirit ..."
4. Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Studies in Their Works by Henry Houston Bonnell (1902)
"... the physiological condition of the pupils after a day of starvation spent in
a paralyzingly cold church) would be set forth in the usual weather strain. ..."
5. My American Diary by Clare Sheridan (1922)
"... by the big companies, but which is paralyzingly detrimental to the smaller ones.
Only the very rich can afford the luxury of enriching themselves. ..."
6. Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders by Charles Handfield Jones (1868)
"... doses (like alcohol) act paralyzingly by over-stimulus on the encephalic
nervous centres. Indeed both agents have in many respects the same effects. ..."
7. A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by Ernest Albert Farrington (1887)
"It acts paralyzingly on the vaso-motor nerves. It is useful in congestions to
various parts of the body, to the head or to the chest. ..."
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