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Definition of Insociability
1. n. The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability.
Definition of Insociability
1. Noun. The quality of being insociable; lack of sociability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insociability
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Literary usage of Insociability
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1. The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1841)
"We easily conceive that the insociability of families made the ... When larger
communities were thus formed, the same insociability, and therefore the same ..."
2. A View of the Principal Deistical Writers that Have Appeared in England in by John Leland (1837)
"And he elsewhere observes, that " the first principle of their polity, ecclesiastical
and civil, was insociability; and accordingly their manners were ..."
3. The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke by Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke, Oliver Goldsmith (1809)
"... they have added new occasions to those that subsisted before of enmity and
strife ; and insociability has increased as they have flourished. ..."
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) (1805)
"... and if the oH'ence be of a trivial nature, such as a difference of temper,
and insociability, the husband punishes her by leaving the female apartment, ..."
5. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"Unless there are present other facts which would lead us to an opposite belief,
we cannot be sure of the permanent insociability of the offender. ..."
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