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Definition of Pessimisms
1. pessimism [n] - See also: pessimism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pessimisms
Literary usage of Pessimisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Occam's Razor: The Application of a Principle to Political Economy, to the by Francis William Bain (1890)
"Does not the philosophy of evolution, which places man's being in a struggle for
existence, justify the view ? These at any rate are pessimisms, which, ..."
2. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"... anticipations, expectations, pessimisms, morbidities, and the whole ghostly
train of fateful shapes which our fellow-men, and especially physicians, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... atheistic, agnostic or materialistic theories as pessimisms, and has likewise
given a pessimistic interpretation to Oriental speculations which find the ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"A better school for expelling any sickly dreams or pessimisms that might haunt
a young man's brain could not easily be imagined. ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1916)
"And finally we may see, for the next generation or so, a humanity penetrated by
the most poignant of pessimisms. The July number opens with a paper by ..."
6. The Bookman (1905)
"He is full of all new mysticisms, pessimisms and realisms, climbs every literary
beanstalk and is sure to find a giant at the top. ..."
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