Citations:backwardness

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English citations of backwardness

  1. reluctance
    • to vilipend the late Manchester Insurrection, as evincing in the rioters an extreme backwardness to battle
      1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection
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