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Chris -- 2018-04-11
It’s tempting to see the word ‘divide’ hidden within ‘invidiou,s’ since invidious activities divide people, but it isn’ t there. 1900+ ghits:
Conflicts between the insurer and insured can put a solicitor who represents both in an individious position…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QC_clause
Complaints of individious discrimination prohibited by university policy are to be resolved within existing University procedures…
web.extension.uiuc.edu/clinton/4Hfamily/i1606_291.html
... to many compatible polities, issues may force individious choices, as exemplified by the post-cold-war reawakening of “nations,” tribes, and clans.
www.bokkilden.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?pr … 072&rom=MP
The many armed groups (i.e. countries) are constantly engaging in a Veblen-type individious comparison of their own group with that of other armed groups.
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-3433(1977)14%3A4%3C315%3ASAC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
... are not inclined to listen to people who seem to mainly want to make individious generalizations about how stupid we are based on 17 year old studies.
althouse.blogspot.com/2007/02/ooh.html
If it is not individious to select, the contributions of all three editors show the mastery and good sense one has grown accustomed to expect from them …
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266(197204)87%3A343%3C348%3ATCHOI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X
The Government in this manner pays a high compliment to the natives as a body, and yet escapes from the individious task of selecting individuals.
www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/0 … later.html
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