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Definition of Letting down
1. Noun. The act of causing something to move to a lower level.
Definition of Letting down
1. Verb. (present participle of let down) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Letting Down
Literary usage of Letting down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1881)
"Yet that is really the whole argument; it stands upon that—that because a clause
saying you shall make compensation for letting down ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by Charles James Gale, George Cave (1899)
"Mr. Wood has struggled with the words and asked us to hold that this is confined
to damage short of letting down the surface — other ..."
3. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1885)
"In letting down the coffin into the grave, they removed the ropes from ...
Orders were given that they should not cry out in letting down that of the ruler. ..."
4. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1867)
"Assuming, therefore, the evidence as to impossibility of working without letting
down the surface, the Plaintiff has an absolute right to support; ..."
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