malthusian
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5ADJ.
imaginary
VERB + MALTHUSIAN
depend, desire, felt
MALTHUSIAN + NOUN
adjustment, ethno-nationalist, fellowships, laws, mother, premiums
PREP.
in, on, towards
ADV.
quite
Definitions
adj
Of, or relating to Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) or his views on human population and world resources.
For first, this college life, opening to scholarships, and ending, perchance, as you political economists would desire, in Malthusian fellowships,—premiums for celibacy,— consider what manner of thing it is!
Even under the best of circumstances, however, no one would depend on this Malthusian adjustment process to account for the ability of modern economies to maintain a constant saving rate and steady growth for 20 years at a time without catastrophe.
noun
A supporter of the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
As Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to nurse and provide for them.
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5For first, this college life, opening to scholarships, and ending, perchance, as you political economists would desire, in Malthusian fellowships,—premiums for celibacy,— consider what manner of thing
WiktionaryEven under the best of circumstances, however, no one would depend on this Malthusian adjustment process to account for the ability of modern economies to maintain a constant saving rate and steady gr
WiktionaryA mixture of this Malthusian and ethno-nationalist thinking is being distilled into political campaigning, as in a political pamphlet described in Turner and Bailey’s research paper from SVP, the larg
WiktionaryAs Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to n
WiktionaryThe best refutation of the imaginary Malthusian laws of "land depletion" is the practice of Soviet collective farming.
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