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Definition of Shrinks
1. shrink [v] - See also: shrink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrinks
Literary usage of Shrinks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology by Antonio Rosmini (1886)
"WHY MAN shrinks FROM DYING. 698. In this way we are also able to explain why man
shrinks from death, why the intellective soul shrinks from feeling itself ..."
2. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"Every man, by the laws of his nature, necessarily desires or shrinks from that
which he deems to be good or bad. Proof.—The knowledge of good and evil is ..."
3. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"Every man, by the laws of his nature, necessarily desires or shrinks from that
which he deems to be good or bad. Proof.—The knowledge of good and evil is ..."
4. Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1895)
"shrinks and closes the heart, ere the stroke of doom has attained it. 11 Then in
his place, on the prow of the boat, rose one of the oarsmen. ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"... or else it gradually shrinks up into an aristocratic body, as the old Teutonic
assemblies did both in England and on the continent. ..."
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