Definition of Bruisings

1. Noun. (plural of bruising) ¹

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Definition of Bruisings

1. bruising [n] - See also: bruising

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bruisings

bruilzie
bruilzies
bruin
bruins
bruise
bruise up
bruised
bruiselike
bruiser
bruisers
bruises
bruisewort
bruiseworts
bruising
bruisingly
bruisings
bruit
bruit de Roger
bruit de canon
bruit de claquement
bruit de cuir neuf
bruit de diable
bruit de frolement
bruit de galop
bruit de la roue de moulin
bruit de lime
bruit de rappel
bruit de scie
bruit de scie ou de rape

Literary usage of Bruisings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folk and Hero Tales by Alfred Trübner Nutt, James MacDougall (1891)
"Then he gave him further terrible bruisings. The Brownie cried, " Let me go, ... He now gave the Brownie further dreadful blows and bruisings. ..."

2. Clinical Lectures on Subjects Connected with Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics by Richard von Volkmann, New Sydenham Society (1876)
"Naturally we would not deny that there may be traumatic puerperal inflammations in the above souse, or even that the bruisings of the soft parts in the ..."

3. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"And to be sure we receive many wounds and bruisings from him and his, for we feel and groan under them daily, and all the brotherhood in the world with us. ..."

4. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"... be the assertion of a still undisciplined self ; but tenderness is the finer essence which is only crushed out of it by the continued bruisings of life. ..."

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