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- noun Plural form of
perspiration .
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Examples
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Limbaugh says it's nothing more than an early campaign event being held by a bunch of Republicans who have what Limbaugh calls presidential perspirations.
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Now, everybody on this [NCNA] Speak to America tour has presidential perspirations [sic].
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Now, everybody on this [NCNA] Speak to America tour has presidential perspirations [sic].
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Other inspirations, too, to go with the perspirations–like the woman in the airport bar who bought the meals of soldiers headed out to Afghanistan.
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In spite, however, of the profuse perspirations from which he suffered, Ben Zoof, constant to his principles, expressed no surprise at the unwonted heat.
Off on a Comet 2003
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It is a state of unutterable irritation of stomach (which surely is not much like dejection), accompanied by intense perspirations, and feelings such as I shall not attempt to describe without more space at my command.
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His sharp dry cough, his short breathing, his profuse perspirations, more especially in the morning; the pinched-in nose, the hollow cheeks, of which the general pallour is only relieved by
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She had that tenderness for his melancholy fate, that his great red countenance used to break out into cold perspirations when she looked at him.
Hard Times 2002
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I also saw people bathing in it to cure themselves of evil-smelling perspirations.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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One person became hysterical, then another; one was seized with catalepsy, then others; some with convulsions; some with palpitations of the heart, perspirations, and other bodily disturbances.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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