List of synonyms from "attirement" to synonyms from "au pair"
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Definition of the day : « attrition »
- noun wearing down or away
- noun regret
- They have not the attrition which wears away the angularities.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- Nothing has done us more harm than all this talk about "attrition."
- Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
- The difficulty was to overcome its susceptibility to attrition.
- Extract from : « Mizora: A Prophecy » by Mary E. Bradley
- I say that attrition with confession is necessary: he believes that contrition is necessary.
- Extract from : « Pascal » by John Tulloch
- In what was to a great extent a war of attrition this was a point of some importance.
- Extract from : « Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 » by Sir Stanley Maude
- But attrition of men is only half; there is the question of food and of money.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) » by Various
- The rocks are smoothed with the attrition of the alchemy of years.
- Extract from : « Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration » by Ernest Giles
- Attrition and Contrition, as defined at the Council of Trent, 584.
- Extract from : « A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) » by Thomas M. Lindsay
- The process of attrition was going forward slowly and surely.
- Extract from : « South Africa and the Transvaal War, vol. 7 » by Louis Creswicke
- As they had least to win so they have most to lose in a war of taxation and attrition.
- Extract from : « The Secrets of a Kuttite » by Edward O. Mousley