injuriousness

plural injuriousnesses

1. countableuncountableThe quality of being injurious.

   Congress entertained an opinion of its injuriousness to the character of the Indians, and passed laws excluding it.

   1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers

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   It is clear that some form of selection must always co-operate in degeneration, such as economy of growth, which he hardly notices except as a possible but not a necessary factor, or actual injuriousness.

   1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2)