Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Opposition to vivisection.
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- adjective opposed to
vivisection
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Examples
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It is not the view known as antivivisection, so far as this means the condemnation without exception of all phases of biological investigation.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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It is not the position of what is called "antivivisection," for that implies condemnation of every phase of animal experimentation.
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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In all the literature of what is known as "antivivisection" is it possible to find a more emphatic condemnation of scientific cruelty than this?
An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Albert Leffingwell 1880
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And she stays there, upright and smiling and proud, savoring her own good looks, with antivivisection posters crumpled around her feet.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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And she stays there, upright and smiling and proud, savoring her own good looks, with antivivisection posters crumpled around her feet.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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And she stays there, upright and smiling and proud, savoring her own good looks, with antivivisection posters crumpled around her feet.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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And she stays there, upright and smiling and proud, savoring her own good looks, with antivivisection posters crumpled around her feet.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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I chose to examine the passionately antivivisection stance of the animal rights movement because this is precisely where the conflict between the majority of people concerned about animal welfare and the animal rights movement is most intense.
Unkind to Animals Sperling, Susan 1989
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Those who pour their efforts into antivivisection protest are absenting themselves from the front lines of human reform, despite Singer's claims to the contrary.
Unkind to Animals Sperling, Susan 1989
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Prevention of Cruelty to Children or to Animals, the antivivisection crusade, and the like.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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