concreter

For example, large targets, such as concreter piers, and oddly shaped targets, such as steel I-beams, may be more economically attacked by multiple charges than a single charge.

Army Field Manual: Explosives and Demolutions Extract by the Death Jester 1971

But at any rate, the reader may object, it is something that the Nootka plural affix is set apart from the concreter group of affixes; and may not the Nootka diminutive have a slenderer, a more elusive content than our - let or - ling or the German - chen or - lein?

Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts 1921

In the early portion of his short but stirring address, The Energies of Men, he says, 'Meanwhile the clinical conceptions, though they may be vaguer than the analytic ones, are certainly more adequate, give the concreter picture of the way the whole mind works, and are of far more urgent practical importance.

William James 1910

I think it probable that Dr. Pratt is vaguely thinking of something concreter than this.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

From Green to Haldane the absolute proposed to us to straighten out the confusions of the thicket of experience in which our life is passed remains a pure abstraction which hardly any one tries to make a whit concreter.

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

The essence of the matter for me is that altho knowing can be both abstractly and concretely described, and altho the abstract descriptions are often useful enough, yet they are all sucked up and absorbed without residuum into the concreter ones, and contain nothing of any essentially other or higher nature, which the concrete descriptions can be justly accused of leaving behind.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

For us, however, it remains, so far, a merely formal and diagrammatic conception; for with the actual content of absolute truth, as Hegel materially tries to set it forth, few disciples have been satisfied, and I do not propose to refer at all to the concreter parts of his philosophy.

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

Hegel tried, as we saw, to make the system concreter by making the relations between things 'dialectic,' but if we turn to those who use his name most worshipfully, we find them giving up all the particulars of his attempt, and simply praising his intention -- much as in our manner we have praised it ourselves.

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

In such a simple case few people would object to letting the term in dispute be translated into its concreter equivalents.

Meaning of Truth William James 1876

A former concreter who didn't finish high school, Johnson was a jail heavyweight and self-proclaimed "general" of a group of inmates who called themselves the Prisoners of War.

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