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Protraction   Listen
noun
Protraction  n.  
1.
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate. "A protraction only of what is worst in life."
2.
(Surv.)
(a)
The act or process of making a plot on paper.
(b)
A plot on paper.





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"Protraction" Quotes from Famous Books



... her reputation. There were several things for her to explain;—among them, her taking it upon herself to see that Noble received a copy of the Oriole, and also her sudden departure from home and rather odd protraction of absence therefrom. It was not thought she was in good company. Uncle Joseph had telephoned from a suburb that they were dining at a farmhouse and would thence descend to the general region of ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... of echoes. We move slowly out of the harbor, then swiftly towards the southeast.... The island seems to turn slowly half round; then to retreat from us. Across our way appears a long band of green light, reaching over the sea like a thin protraction of color from the extended spur of verdure in which the western end of the island terminates. That is a sunken reef, and a dangerous one. Lying high upon it, in very sharp relief against the blue light, is a wrecked vessel on her beam-ends,—the carcass of a brig. Her decks have ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn
... jealousy, envy, grief, disappointment, expectation—all these influence the body in this manner, the consequences depending upon the intensity of the emotion and its protraction. Chronic emotional stimulation, therefore, may fatigue or exhaust the brain and may cause cardiovascular disease, indigestion, Graves' disease, diabetes, and ...
— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile


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