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Definition of Susceptivities
1. susceptivity [n] - See also: susceptivity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Susceptivities
Literary usage of Susceptivities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"To those who ape Byron's dandyism or eccentricities, and weep over his melancholy
or ' prurient susceptivities,' no voice will be of much avail. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker. by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1843)
"To those who ape Byron's dandyism or eccentricities, and weep over his melancholy
or ' prurient susceptivities,' no voice will be of much avail. ..."
3. Metaphysical Tracts by English Philosophers of the Eighteenth Century by Samuel Parr, Arthur Collier, David Hartley, Abraham Tucker (1837)
"When the susceptivities therefore of two persons are the same, the intenseness
is as the quantities of good in the object; and in equal quantities, ..."
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