Avocations is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AVOCATIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• AVOCATION, a minor occupation undertaken as a diversion
• a hobby or minor occupation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• diversion, distraction

Words related to AVOCATIONS

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How to use AVOCATIONS in a sentence

• When business is good, most men obtain employment in the more desirable and profitable avocations of civil life.
• Believe me, as well withdraw totally from literature as attempt to proceed in the midst of worldly avocations.
• She had doubtless resumed her usual avocations too soon after the birth of her last child, as often happens in working-class families where the mother is unable to remain idle.
• The author first depicts his little community, and then proceeds to describe the avocations of all the leading personages.
• I wish I could state the avocations and professions of the various women who have spoken in our convention during the last three days.
• His time and attention were, in fact, strangely divided between the highest and noblest intellectual avocations, and the lowest sensual pleasures of a gay and dissipated life.
• Then they were not interested, as men are now, in the pursuits and avocations of private industry.
• Some time prior to the period at which this little history begins, my avocations had been largely increased.
• He raises chickens and goats and plants a garden as avocations.
• He so arranged his avocations and studies in regard to time, that he had always a few hours in the afternoon to devote to visiting the families of his congregation.
• The Shawnee Indians had left their wigwams to engage in their daily avocations.
• It is an easy task for men who have accomplished all they desired to lay down their arms and return to their homes and resume their former avocations.
• This time was much lengthened by my avocations to other objects, which I had no right to neglect.
• The vehement activity with which he pursued his three avocations was a part of his natural character and temperament.
• And even these resembled those pleasant avocations which fill up the elegant morning leisure of our fashionable ladies at home.
• He was at that time pursuing his usual avocations, and was as much respected and trusted as when I met him.
• With the insatiable curiosity which was his characteristic throughout life, he threw himself into the pleasures and avocations of the novel society.
• The one thing that might yet save him, a complete surrender of himself to his avocations, is become intolerable.
• He knows them as they hunt, as they travel, as they go about their various avocations on the march and in the camp.
• It is incompatible with the ordinary and indispensable avocations of life.
• He seemed to have taken a great fancy to the Minor Canon, and followed him about as he pursued his various avocations.
• Besides this, he was an assiduous courtier, and he also found the time, among these various avocations, for carrying on at least two passionate love-affairs.
• A second fireplace had been established in the dining-room, where they all worked together at their different avocations.
• Smallbones had returned to his avocations, and Vanslyperken, intending mischief, treated him more kindly, as a blind.
• It is largely a place of residence for business men, and from fifteen to twenty thousand cross the Bay daily in pursuit of their avocations.
• The existence of the inlet, which united the ocean with the waters of the Cove, was but little known, except to the few whose avocations kept them near the spot.
• If she had been in Paris all this time pursuing her daily avocations, I must surely have found her.
• In appearance he was frail and broken, but life seemed persistent in him because of his sober habits and his country avocations.
• Various avocations have from time to time called my mind from the subject.
• The majority pursue such worldly avocations, often quite humble, as are permissible for them under their caste laws.

Similar words containing AVOCATION without suffix s

avocation14 avocational16 avocationally21

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