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Definition of Invitations

1. invitation [n] - See also: invitation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Invitations

Literary usage of Invitations

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

1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"... or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment. ..."

2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"Refusal of invitations. ... deter- 'mination I have refused invitations from Philadelphia, ' Baltimore, Washington, Virginia, Albany, and Provi- ' dence. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1880)
"Professor Good, of the Committee on invitations, read the following report, ... Your Committee on invitations beg leave to offer the following : That they ..."

4. Decorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette and Dress of the Best American by John A. Ruth, S. L. Louis (1882)
"The invitations on these occasions may vary somewhat in their wordings, according to the fancy of the writer, but they are all similar. ..."

5. Manual of Composition and Rhetoric by John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold (1907)
"invitations AND REPLIES invitations and replies are either formal or ... In both formal and informal invitations the address of the sender and the date may ..."

6. Principles of Government Purchasing by Arthur G. Thomas (1919)
"Homogeneous invitations for Bids. Closely connected with the question of combining related articles in classes for the bidding itself is that of following a ..."

7. Political Discussions, Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular, 1856-1886 by James Gillespie Blaine (1887)
"WITHDRAWAL OF invitations TO A PEACE CONGRESS. [The following letter was sent to President Arthur, Fob. 3, 1882, by ex- Secretary Blaine: —] To THE ..."

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