2. Verb. (third-person singular of resist) ¹
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Definition of Resists
1. resist [v] - See also: resist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resists
Literary usage of Resists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"ness so great that the metal resists the action of the file. This is copper- steel.
Titanium, obtained by exactly similar processes, and/calcined in ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"ness so great that the metal resists the action of the file. This is copper- steel.
Titanium, obtained by exactly similar processes, and calcined in ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1890)
"Divided ownership strengthens the force of custom and resists changes. but the
village ; and if the village can buy their shares from no one but him, ..."
4. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"A man under temptation resists at one time because he has strength of mind ; he
yields at another because he is weak ; had he been the same as before he ..."
5. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1848)
"... Gordian Knot—A Council granted—Charles's Summons—Menaces—Altercations—Peace
or War—Romanism concedes—Protestantism resists—Luther recalls his Friends. ..."
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