Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Invective.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An inveighing against; invective.
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- noun obsolete An
inveighing against;invective .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But when you get up to parts of the arrowhead of Minnesota and northern Wisconsin and even the UP of Michigan, a lot of that rain is going to be switching over to snow because you got that cold-air invection coming in, that shallow layer with the overrunning moisture is going to give you the snow.
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But in the southwest, we're looking at a little bit of dry air invection that is beginning to sweep in.
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When this happens, we refer to as dry air invection (ph).
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The soaring HIV infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa are found in communities that do not practice circumcision, such as Swaziland, with the world's highest HIV invection rate of 33 percent.
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A leading South African AIDS expert Saturday advocated male circumcision as the best available "vaccine" against invection.
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Yet, your own comment on TV a few minutes ago noted the high rate of HIV invection in Washington D.C. If condom availability is not working in the US, our own capital city, why are you so sure it will work in
Cafferty File 2009
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