Usage examples (8)

• Mr. Jukes Brown, whom I have just quoted, says: “The Wold hills must have been, in some way, exposed to a severe and long-continued detrition, when erosive agencies were...
• The reason for their growth, as a final cause, is their function, for they would soon be worn down if there were not some means of saving them; even as it is they are...
• Nowadays it has become the custom to place these slabs upright against the walls, thus preventing further detrition.
• Another is the constant repetition of certain words and phrases which have lost their meaning by detrition and are known to all.