Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of retruding, or the state of being retruded.
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- noun The act of
retruding , or the state of being retruded.
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Examples
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Anything which increases the expanding force of a people -- the establishment of a more satisfactory government by which the national consciousness is developed, as in the American and French revolutions, the prosecution of a successful war by which popular energies are released from an old restraint, mere increase of population, or an impulse communicated by some hostile and irresistible force behind -- all are registered in an advance of the boundary of the people in question and a corresponding retrusion of their neighbor's frontier.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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