Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Action of or as of a reagent; reflex agency or activity; counter-agency; reaction.
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- noun
power toreact
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Examples
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Will is the sum of physical forces necessary for self-preservation, is reagency against the formidable rivalry of every other organization.
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In him, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency might best be studied.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
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In him, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency might best be studied.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
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Epictetus only, that would suffer under this law of Christianity viewed in its reagency, but also Abraham, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Hezekiah.
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But, surely, as against that one poison then familiarly used for domestic murders, a chemical reagency might have been devised in the quality of the glass.
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But, surely, as against that one poison then familiarly used for domestic murders, a chemical reagency might have been devised in the quality of the glass.
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In _him_, from the strength and determinateness of his nature as well as from the great extent of his writing, the philosophy of this interaction between the author as a human agency and his theme as an intellectual reagency, might best be studied.
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