Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
locomotivity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The power of changing place.
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- noun Alternative form of
locomotivity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox halfway.
Walking 1969
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
Walking 1914
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
Walking [1862] 1909
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox halfway.
Walking 1862
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839
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