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Definition of Resistlessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resistlessness
Literary usage of Resistlessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the National Association of Life by LIfe Underwriters Association of Canada (1898)
"... are finally concentrated into the narrow Niagara River— and then realize, if
you can, from the illustration of the Johnstown flood, the resistlessness, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The frequency with which tumors occur, the resistlessness with which many of them
carry their victims on to a painful death and our ignorance in regard to ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"... our replies : for surrender becomes triviality when the compelling power is
slight and when it has grown great is the sign of its resistlessness. IV. ..."
4. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"The resistlessness of Rome, her civic and military superiority over the western
peoples whom she conquered, may be grasped from the record of Gallic ..."
5. The Natural History of Some Common Animals: A Book of Animal Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1904)
"But he was no match for this dreadful black bulk that descended upon him with
the resistlessness of doom. He went down at the first crash, a pathetic sprawl ..."
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