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Definition of Ruinousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruinousness
Literary usage of Ruinousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Alfred Bishop Mason, Paul Shorey, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1889)
"the ruinousness of the policy of the administration as to seriously threaten the
power of the Republicans. They could again go back immediately, ..."
2. The Constitutional and Political History of the United States by Hermann Von Holst, John Joseph Lalor, Paul Shorey, Ira Hutchinson Brainerd (1876)
"the ruinousness of the policy of the administration as to seriously threaten the
power of the Republicans. They could again go back immediately, ..."
3. Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold (1880)
"... Scherer says of the ruinousness, to a poet, of ' symbols, hieroglyphics,
mystifications,' is just. When Mr. Carlyle praises the Helena for being ' not a ..."
4. Mixed Essays by Matthew Arnold (1880)
"All that M. Scherer says of the ruinousness, to a poet, of' symbols, hieroglyphics,
mystifications,' is just. When Mr. Carlyle praises the Helena for being ..."