Definition of Inferiors

1. Noun. (plural of inferior) ¹

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Definition of Inferiors

1. inferior [n] - See also: inferior

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inferiors

inferior vena cavas
inferior ventricular vein
inferior vesical nerves
inferior vesical plexus
inferior vestibular area
inferior vestibular nucleus
inferior vocal cord
inferior vocal fold
inferior wall of orbit
inferior wall of tympanic cavity
inferiorities
inferiority
inferiority complex
inferiorly
inferiors (current term)
inferiour
inferiourity
inferiourly
inferiours
infernal
infernal machine
infernal region
infernally
inferno
infernos
inferobranchian
inferobranchians
inferobranchiata
inferobranchiate

Literary usage of Inferiors

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

1. The Young Lady's Own Book: A Manual of Intellectual Improvement and Moral by Author of The young man's own book (1841)
"DEPORTMENT TOWARDS inferiors. IT is scarcely of less importance that a young lady should deport herself properly towards her inferiors, than it is that she ..."

2. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel (1852)
"23 How they bind their inferiors . ... 301 CHAP. III. Of the Jmt Causes of War. 24 War never to be undertaken without very cogent reasons . .301 25 ..."

3. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"Hm— she's not too polite to those she considers her inferiors !" " Polite ! To me it was imperious, in-« soient, degrading ! But I can put up with it ! ..."

4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... equally polite and cultivated, and all depends on the relations in which the speakers stand to each other, as they happen to be inferiors or superiors. ..."

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