Definition of Detriments

1. Noun. (plural of detriment) ¹

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Definition of Detriments

1. detriment [n] - See also: detriment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detriments

detrend
detrended
detrending
detrends
detribalisation
detribalise
detribalization
detribalize
detribalized
detribalizes
detribalizing
detriment
detrimental
detrimentally
detrimentals
detriments (current term)
detrita
detrital
detrition
detritions
detritivore
detritivores
detritivorous
detritral
detritus
detrivore
detrivores
detrude
detruded
detrudes

Literary usage of Detriments

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

1. A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose by Charles Mackay (1872)
"houses, case, detriments, &c. ; so we rise and fall in this world, ebb and flow, in and out, reared and dejected, lead a troublesome life, subject to many ..."

2. A Tour in Tartan-land by Cuthbert Bede (1863)
"... Increase of Tourists — Fortune's Favourites — detriments to an Enchanted Land — The Banquet Hall— The Puzzled Waiter— Is it Onion? ..."

3. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1834)
"These detriments are all paid to the cook. ... I have been told, that lately these " detriments" have not been introduced in the accounts in one sum, ..."

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