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Definition of Anticruelty
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticruelty
Literary usage of Anticruelty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association: ... Annual Meeting by B. Boretz, New York State Historical Association, E. T. Cone, Meeting (1919)
"As an acknowledgment of his activities President Stillman has been honored by
special recognition from many home and foreign anticruelty societies. ..."
2. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"An English society antedated this by forty-four years, having passed an anticruelty
act in 1822. There have been 5oo anti- cruelty societies in the United ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"anticruelty and bird protective societies, as well as individuals, are competing
to bring the agriculturists to a sense of the harm they are doing ..."
4. Prohibiting Vivisection of Dogs: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the by United States, Senate, Congress, Committee on the Judiciary (1919)
"All anticruelty laws, I think, are based on one original model and are about the
same in the several States, and under general anticruelty laws vivisection ..."
5. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1892)
"... anticruelty ; societies to meet special wants—to build churches, to aid
students, to support the aged ; city and State, home and foreign mission ..."
6. Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the by United States, Congress, House (1906)
"The entire history of the anticruelty movement disproves this statement.
There never has occurred an instance in which an anticruelty law has been enacted ..."
7. Experimentation on Living Animals (1916)
"JAMES P. BRIGGS, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, PRESIDENT OF THE anticruelty ... I am also
president of a recently formed organization called the anticruelty League, ..."
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