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injuriousness en · NOUN

Etymology

From injurious + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being injurious.
   • Congress entertained an opinion of its injuriousness to the character of the Indians, and passed laws excluding it. 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
   • It is clear that some form of selection must always co-operate in degeneration, such as economy of growth, which he hardly notices except as a possible but not a necessary factor, or actual injuriousness. 1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2):

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