«RETIRACY» İLE İLİŞKİLİ İNGILIZCE KİTAPLAR
retiracy sözcüğünün kullanımını aşağıdaki kaynakça seçkisinde keşfedin.
retiracy ile ilişkili kitaplar ve İngilizce edebiyattaki kullanımı ile ilgili bağlam sağlaması için küçük metinler.
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The Columbia Retirement Handbook
Having retired from the Continental Army in 1783, and the Presidency in 1796,
Washington elected to scale back his plantation duties shortly before he died at
age sixty-seven. Retiracy seems to be the only cognate in use before the
American ...
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Americanisms; the English of the New world
Retiracy, in the sense of retirement, as well as, still worse, in the sense of a
competency on which a man may retire, is irredeemable slang, although used by
many American writers. " Yes, Mr. Speaker, I'd a powerful sight sooner go into
retiracy ...
Maximilian Schele De Vere, 1872
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Book and heart: essays on literature and life
XXXI THE PREJUDICE IN FAVOR OF RETIRACY Miss Alcott, when serving as
nurse in a soldiers' hospital, justified her demand of a small curtain for her
chamber window on the fact of " the female mind having a prejudice in favor of
retiracy ...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1899
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases ...
Retiracy. 1. Retirement. This absurd word is often applied to the condition of
politicians who have retired, willingly or unwillingly, to private life. Here I shall
stay and amuse myself in what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy
.
John Russell Bartlett, 1877
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
Retiracy. 1. Retirement. This absurd word is often applied to the condition of
politicians who have retired, willingly or unwillingly, to private life. Here I shall
stay and amuse myself in what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy
.
John Russell Bartlett, 1877
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BARTLETT'S DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS
Retiracy. 1. Retirement. This absurd word is often applied to the condition of
politicians who have retired, willingly or unwillingly, to private life. Here I shall
stay and amuse myself in what one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy
.
JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT, 1859
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How to Write & Speak Better English
Example "In his retiracy [sic] after 1946, " the biographer comments, "the senator
continued to take an active interest in the economic and cultural revival of his
home state. " Here the [sic] is used because the usual form is retirement rather
than ...
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Pronunc Standard Eng America V
®If our proposals once again were heard, we should compel themtoa quick result
. ̄¦ParadiseLost,6.619 (1667). RESURRECT. ®Asfastasweknock them onthe
head, this Tunestrick resurrects them. ̄¦Annual Register,174.1(1772).
RETIRACY.
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Martin Van Buren: The American Presidents Series: The 8th ...
Inevitably, Van Buren ran out of reasons to put off “retiracy,” and so he finally
wended his way up the Hudson to Kinderhook. He arrived there on May 8, I841,
setting off something like pandemonium, or as near to it as Dutch farmers could
get.
Ted Widmer, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 2005
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Garner's Modern American Usage
retirement; ✳retiral; ✳retiracy. Retirement, of course, is the usual word. ✳Retiral (
= the act of retiring) and ✳retiracy (= the state of being retired) are now needless
variants. retractable; ✳retractible. The first spelling is preferred. See -able (a).
