Definition of Backwardnesses

1. Noun. (plural of backwardness) ¹

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Definition of Backwardnesses

1. backwardness [n] - See also: backwardness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backwardnesses

backward compatibility
backward compatible
backward compliment
backward curvature
backward dive
backward heart failure
backward induction
backward inductions
backward linkage
backward slash
backwardation
backwardations
backwardly
backwardness
backwardnesses
backwards
backwards compliment
backwards roll
backwards rolls
backwardsness
backwash
backwash ileitis
backwashed
backwashes
backwashing
backwater
backwatered
backwatering
backwaterish

Literary usage of Backwardnesses

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

1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"... that though the backwardnesses of all our matters of the office may be well imputed to the known want of money, yet perhaps there might be personal and ..."

2. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at by Pepys Library, Samuel Pepys, Great Britain Admiralty. Archives (1903)
"... that though the backwardnesses of all our matters of the office may be well imputed to the known want of money, yet perhaps there might be personal and ..."

3. Delicate, Backward, Puny, and Stunted Children: Their Developmental Defects by James Compton Burnett (1895)
"He did so because I had been mentioning to him some interesting curative work I had done in the medicinal treatment of backwardnesses. ..."

4. Life and Reign of Queen Victoria: Being a Complete Narrative of Her Grand by Murat Halstead, Augustus J. Munson (1901)
""One needs, no doubt, to strain the memory in order to force it back into realizing all the strange backwardnesses of those days. ..."

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