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Definition of Tends
1. tend [v] - See also: tend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tends
Literary usage of Tends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Nations; Or, Principles of the Law of Nature: Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1858)
"If ! that which tends to render a deed void and ineffectual is contained in ...
Whatever tends to change the present state of things is § 305. also to be ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... suspended in the air, tends to cause evaporation even though the degree of
saturation is enough to cause condensation on a water-surface that is flat, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"These two sources of error partially compensate each other; for at a high
temperature the reduced density of the mercury tends to make the column stand too ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"In reaching the conclusion that the 'testimony tends to show a conscious and
reckless failure of the freight train crew to observe the care due under the ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"But a mere catalogue of ships may become poetical if it tends to show the ...
becomes still more so if it tends to show the skill of the divine artificer ..."
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