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Definition of Pugnaciousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pugnaciousness
Literary usage of Pugnaciousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology, General and Applied by Hugo Münsterberg (1914)
"the fighting spirit of man, whose pugnaciousness and whose longing for vengeance
force his will on his enemies. Every form of rivalry, jealousy and ..."
2. Psychology, General and Applied by Hugo Münsterberg (1914)
"the fighting spirit of man, whose pugnaciousness and. whose longing for vengeance
force his will on his enemies. Every form of rivalry, jealousy and ..."
3. Psychology, General and Applied by Hugo Münsterberg (1914)
"the fighting spirit of man, whose pugnaciousness and whose longing for vengeance
force his will on his enemies. Every form of rivalry, jealousy and ..."
4. Essentials of Social Psychology by Emory Stephen Bogardus (1920)
"pugnaciousness in the individual when combined with pugnaciousness in other
individuals assumes mass proportions, organized methods, and gigantic power. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Meanwhile the bovs had been placed at Mr. John Clarke's school at Enfield, where
John distinguished himself by his manly pugnaciousness and, later, ..."
6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"About the year 160o Jonson's pugnaciousness had roused against him an opposition
in which, perhaps, Shakespeare alone, forbore to take a part. ..."
7. Papers and Proceedings by American Sociological Society Meeting, American Sociological Association (1917)
"It cost the subjection of women, the legal slavery of children, the development
in man of unsocial pugnaciousness and ruthless sacrifice of others' rights ..."
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