单词 | cumulative force |
释义 | > as lemmascumulative force a. Constituted by or arising from accumulation, or the accession of successive portions or particulars; acquiring or increasing in force or cogency by successive additions, as cumulative argument, cumulative evidence, cumulative force. ΚΠ 1668 Liberty of Conscience the Magistrates Interest 4 He..has not only the common tye of a Subject upon him, for his protection as a man, but the cumulative obligation, and thanks to pay for his Indulgence. a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ xiv. (T.) Among many cumulative treasons charged upon the late earl of Strafford. 1823 J. Keble Serm. (1848) ii. 37 The argument from the authority of implicit believers is cumulative: i.e. a fresh argument is added every time a new instance is observed of a man's finding his happiness in Christianity. 1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 60 Always scorn appearances, and you always may. The force of character is cumulative. 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xx. 500 We have..cumulative evidence to prove the wide-spread diffusion of the same types. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. ix. 432 There are several circumstances which have together a kind of cumulative force. < as lemmas |
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