Definition of Drynesses

1. Noun. (plural of dryness) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drynesses

1. dryness [n] - See also: dryness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drynesses

drying out
drying time
drying up
dryings
dryish
dryland
dryland berry
dryland blueberry
drylands
drylot
drylots
dryly
drymouth
drymouths
dryness
drynesses
drynurse
drynursed
drynurses
drynursing
dryobalanops
dryolestid
dryolestids
dryopithecine
dryopithecines
drypis
drypoint
drypoints
drys
drysalter

Literary usage of Drynesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"The author found it necessary tu timi the value of y for steam of various drynesses and temperatures, usually over a range of 80° C. For each mean ..."

2. Modern Studies by Oliver Elton (1907)
"... with dignity by John of the Cross :— In the hour of the drynesses of this night of the sense . . . the spiritual suffer great pains, not only for the ..."

3. Practical Piety by Francis (1853)
"... not omitting to put them into effect and to practice them, in spite of the drynesses, repugnances, or contradictions which may present themselves. ..."

4. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"(j3o of all our raptures and o drynesses, our longings and pantings, our questions ai beliefs. They are equally organically founded, be th of religious or ..."

5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1903)
"So of all our raptures and our drynesses, our longings and pantings, our questions and beliefs. They are equally organically founded, be tbey of religious ..."

6. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1904)
"He taught roughly, melodramatically, inconsistently, but he taught a lesson of force and vitality. He was full of technical faults,drynesses ..."

7. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"Yet some of these very monographs have been executed in a manner escaping the dangers and avoiding the drynesses, and not a few both of the authors of them ..."

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