Definition of Disrepairs

1. disrepair [n] - See also: disrepair

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disrepairs

disregulates
disregulation
disrelated
disrelation
disrelations
disrelish
disrelished
disrelishes
disrelishing
disrelisht
disremember
disremembered
disremembering
disremembers
disrepair
disrepairs (current term)
disreputabilities
disreputability
disreputable
disreputable person
disreputableness
disreputably
disreputation
disrepute
disreputes
disrespect
disrespectability
disrespectable
disrespected
disrespecter

Literary usage of Disrepairs

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

1. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1846)
"If the walls can be depended upon, I do not doubt but that the roof and other disrepairs could be sufficiently set right by an outlay of perhaps a A'100 or ..."

2. Public Health by Society of Community Medicine (Great Britain), Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (Great Britain), Society of Medical Officers of Health, Society of Community Medicine (1891)
"The owners also are to be proceeded against, where disrepairs directly leading to insanitary conditions are found and not remedied. ..."

3. Walter of Henley's Husbandry: Together with an Anonymous Husbandry by Walter of Henley, William Cunningham (1890)
"... see all the disrepairs of the houses in their charge, also of walls, ditches, hedges, carts, waggons, ploughs, harrows, folds, and all other costs, ..."

4. Old Church Life in Scotland: Lectures on Kirk-session and Presbytery Records by Andrew Edgar (1885)
"What disrepairs were put up with at one time may be conjectured from the fact, that in 1701 it was reported to the Presbytery of Ayr, that the Kirk of ..."

5. Sketches of Life in Japan by Henry Knollys (1887)
"No melancholy broken furniture, no tawdry hangings to harbour dust, no disreputable " disrepairs," no pots, pans, pails of dirty water, or cracked crockery ..."

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