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Definition of Annihilatory
1. a. Annihilative.
Definition of Annihilatory
1. Adjective. Causing annihilation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Annihilatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Annihilatory
Literary usage of Annihilatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gillette's Industrial Solution: World Corporation; an Account of the by Melvin Linwood Severy (1908)
"... reaches equity only when it is equally balanced on both sides of a transaction,
and, therefore, mutually annihilatory. A word will explain. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"... but these lesions might easily be of sufficient intensity to be annihilatory,
inhibitory, or destructive at a certain point—for instance, ..."
3. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"... contributes to the intensification of the self-affirmation of the state and
its agents through a discourse of annihilatory violence. ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"For all that was bad or mean he had a noble scorn and a magnificent faculty of
annihilatory wrath, but he never sneered even at what he despised. ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"For all that was bad or mean he had a noble scorn and a magnificent faculty of
annihilatory wrath, but he never sneered even at what he despised. ..."
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