2. Verb. (third-person singular of lapse) ¹
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Definition of Lapses
1. lapse [v] - See also: lapse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lapses
Literary usage of Lapses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Control Processes in Modified Hand-writing: An Experimental Study by June Etta Downey (1908)
"(c) lapses.—Errors occurring in writing are evidences of the lapses or ...
It is instructive that many lapses occur in the writing of B (86) ;21 in that of ..."
2. Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, &c. by Gleeson White (1887)
"LIFE lapses BY. Life lapses by for you and me ; JOHN PAYNE. ... We in each other's
eyes will see New Springs, nor question how or why Life lapses by. ..."
3. Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, & C. by Gleeson White (1888)
"LIFE lapses BY. Life lapses by for you and me ; JOHN PAYNE. ... We in each other's
eyes will see New Springs, nor question how or why Life lapses by. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"I assume that we are able to decide whether two lapses of time are equal. ...
In order to measure lapses of time we must know when a lapse of time is twice ..."
5. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"It is to be noted that most of these lapses are peculiar to speech (vocal
utterance), because this is the more fluent, more automatic expression; ..."
6. The Psychology of Special Disability in Spelling by Leta Stetter Hollingworth, C. Amelia Winford (1918)
"CHAPTER V DETERMINANTS OF ERROR IN SPELLING lapses In the course of the ...
Among the most frequent and most interesting errors were those due to lapses. ..."
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