Definition of Nonconsumption

1. Noun. The failure to consume ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nonconsumption

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonconsumption

nonconstrained
nonconstricted
nonconstricting
nonconstructed
nonconstruction
nonconstructive
nonconsular
nonconsultant
nonconsultants
nonconsulted
nonconsulting
nonconsumer
nonconsumerist
nonconsumers
nonconsuming
nonconsumption
nonconsumptions
nonconsumptive
noncontact
noncontacted
noncontagious
noncontainerizable
noncontainerized
noncontaminant
noncontaminants
noncontaminated
noncontaminating
noncontaminative
noncontemporary
noncontender

Literary usage of Nonconsumption

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

1. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution by David Hume (1811)
"At first these had only been partial, but now they were become universal, and the nonimportation and nonconsumption agreements included the usual penalties ..."

2. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... and Nonconsumption Agreement. I will read the second of those articles: — "That we will neither import nor purchase any slave imported after the first ..."

3. History of Worcester, Massachusetts: From Its Earliest Settlement to by William Lincoln, Charles Hersey (1862)
"As the nonconsumption agreement prevented the sale by the merchants of the obnoxious article, the gardens and fields were laid under contributions to supply ..."

4. A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest Records by Elroy McKendree Avery, William Abbatt (1908)
"On the twenty-seventh, non-importation and nonconsumption of British goods after the first day of December were unanimously voted. ..."

5. A Group of Great Lawyers of Columbia County, New York by Peyton Farrell Miller (1904)
"ciation of the United Colonies," whose object was to induce all the colonies to enter into a nonimportation, nonconsumption, and nonex- portation agreement ..."

6. The Irish Quarterly Review (1853)
"A fine time, no doubt, for nonconsumption combinations t When the same was tried before we were found unequal to resist the ad- Terse weight of British ..."

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