Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of a beaver; a beaverish trait.
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Examples
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If you have human intellect, it avails nothing unless you either make it into beaverism, or talk with it.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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If a man can keep his intellect silent, and make it even into honest beaverism, several very manful moralities, in danger of wreck on other courses, may comport well with that, and give it a genuine and partly human character; and I will tell him, in these days he may do far worse with himself and his intellect than change it into beaverism, and make honest money with it.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Make it into beaverism, and gather money; or else make talk with it, and gather what you can.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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-- "Gold, so much gold?" answers the ingenuous soul, with visions of the envy of surrounding flunkies dawning on him; and in very many cases decides that he will contract himself into beaverism, and with such a horse-draught of gold, emblem of a never-imagined success in beaver heroism, strike the surrounding flunkies yellow.
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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