irritability
noun
the quality or state of being irritable.
irritabilities
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pluralof irritability.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It were sickening to detail all the paltry irritabilities, jealousies, and cabals, the spiteful detractions and animosities, that lurk far down, and cling to the very kelson of the ship.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
Of course there are a good many of these things which disappear together with the body, such as the glooms, suspicions, and cloudy irritabilities, which are caused by fatigue and malaise, and by ill-health generally.
From The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson
Whereas this difficulty ceases, if the embryon be supposed to consist of a living filament, which acquires or makes new parts with new irritabilities, as it advances in its growth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
"The embryon" must "be supposed to be a living filament, which acquires or makes new parts, with new irritabilities as it advances in its growth."
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
I will answer—to keep my mind free, and unbiased by all paltry and personal irritabilities of praise or censure; to let my genius take its natural direction.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
