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Definition of Gnawings
1. gnawing [n] - See also: gnawing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnawings
Literary usage of Gnawings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Shakespeare by Henry Norman Hudson (1848)
"... sleepless amid the sleep of nature, nay, most restless in its gnawings then
when all other cares are at rest, drives her forth, open-eyed yet sightless, ..."
2. Criminal Responsibility and Social Constraint by Ray Madding McConnell (1912)
"The real gnawings of conscience are extremely rare precisely among criminals and
prisoners. Prisons and houses of correction are not the breeding-places in ..."
3. Insect Architecture by James Rennie (1830)
"... and divides this into eight, nine, or even twelve cells, each about five lines
long, and separated by partitions formed of the gnawings of the pith, ..."
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