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Definition of Revulsions
1. revulsion [n] - See also: revulsion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revulsions
Literary usage of Revulsions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Rise and Progress of the Iron Trade of the United States by Benjamin Franklin French (1858)
""Whatever may have been the exertions of the English to diminish, or to temper
the commercial revulsions in the United States, and however considerable the ..."
2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Misfortunes—Amount of his Property—Causes of the Depression of the Agricultural
Interest in Virginia—Monetary revulsions—Life at Monticello—Its Scale of ..."
3. The History of the Commercial Crisis, 1857-58 and the Stock Exchange Panic by David Morier Evans (1859)
"... Features of the Several revulsions—The State of Distress and Disaster ...
of the several revulsions as they ..."
4. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"This is, the waste of capital in periods of over-trading and rash speculation,
and in the commercial revulsions by which such times are always followed. ..."
5. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1899)
"... with the subsequent revulsions, destroy, or transfer to foreigners, a considerable
amount of capital, produce a temporary rise of interest and profit, ..."
6. Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1899)
"This is, the waste of capital in periods of overtrading and rash speculation,
and in the commercial revulsions by which such times are always followed. ..."
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