Lexicographical Neighbors of Pugnacities
Literary usage of Pugnacities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fruits of Victory: A Sequel to "The Great Illusion," by Norman Angell (1921)
"A realisation of this truth is indispensable for the restraint of the instinctive
pugnacities that hamper human relationship, particularly where nationalism ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... and pugnacities which masquerade as 'national aspirations' are seething beneath
the serenity of the Quai d'Orsay." He added that the opportunism of ..."
3. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"They will regard it as intolerably lenient in admitting sheltering, specific
fears, six or more specialized 'pugnacities,' mastery and submission, ..."
4. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"They will regard it as intolerably lenient in admitting sheltering, specific
fears, six or more specialized 'pugnacities,' mastery and submission, ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"And yet somehow her very sweetness, her delicate uncomplaining- ness, seemed only
to develop his own small egotisms and pugnacities. That night—a night of ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"That he must have been a tender-hearted and affectionate man outside of his
pugnacities and impertinences — or perhaps inside of that outward ..."
7. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"He delighted to carry a measure by mere push of pike, and to his contemporaries
he was a bundle of pugnacities. Every man born north of the Tweed was an ..."
8. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1900)
"He delighted to carry a measure by mere push of pike, and to his contemporaries
he was a bundle of pugnacities. Every man born north of the Tweed was an ..."
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