Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being injurious or harmful; hurtfulness.
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- noun The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
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- noun The quality of being
injurious .
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- noun destructiveness that causes harm or injury
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Examples
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Their enemies shall deal hardly with them, for they have dealt hardly with one another (v. 11): Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness; that is, their injuriousness to one another is protected and patronised by the power of the magistrate.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Russian burghers and peasants, many of whom had but recently co-operated or, at least, sympathized with the perpetrators of the pogroms, endeavored to prove the economic "injuriousness" of the Jews, and demanded that they should be restricted in their urban and rural pursuits, as well as in their right of residence outside the cities.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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The Tzar lent an attentive ear to those zealous governors and governors-general, who in their "most humble reports" propounded the new-fangled theory of the "injuriousness" of the Jews; the marginal remarks frequently attached by him to these reports assumed the force of binding resolutions.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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Jews enjoy equal rights "(i.e., the right of residence) tend to support the theory of the" injuriousness "of the Jewish people.
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) I. [Translator] Friedlaender 1900
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I ought to have recognized that my indignation was less against the injuriousness of his opinions than against him for holding them.
The Captive Mind 2009
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I ought to have recognized that my indignation was less against the injuriousness of his opinions than against him for holding them.
The Captive Mind 2009
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The presbytery do not, as some others, found their testimony against this extravagant act establishing Popery, &c., in Canada, solely or simply on its injuriousness to the private interests of men -- their bodily lives, goods, or outward privileges; nor do they declare against and condemn it merely because _that_ religion which is sanctioned with this national decree and engagement for its defense is a sanguinary one:
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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The ancient idea of the injuriousness of the relations during menstruation and the disastrous results likely to follow them have only a very slender foundation.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Imbued with the medieval idea of the "sinfulness" of the habit, as well as its injuriousness, they begin to scold the child, to frighten it, to make it believe that it is doing something terrible, that it has disgraced them and itself; and they try to persuade it that, unless it stops immediately, the most direful consequences are awaiting it.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Determined in respect of character by either injuriousness or peacefulness, mildness or fierceness, righteousness or unrighteousness, truthfulness or untruthfulness, each creature, at every new creation, obtains that particular attribute which it had cherished before.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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