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Definition of Amusingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amusingness
Literary usage of Amusingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Touching the reality (as weU as the amusingness) of spectral appearances, I
protest, altogether, against being put down as a scoffer. ..."
2. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... and not unfrequent blunders in talking and pronouncing English, only contributed
to the amusingness of her lively conversation. Were we a raconteur, ..."
3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1916)
"... Mrs. Miller to the reader in this case better than as having written an amusing
book that seems to have little but its amusingness to recommend it. ..."
4. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1901)
"... humour, good-humour, and general amusingness of Jack Falstaff, and laxity and
grossness of body, life, and manners could never go so far to assert their ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"... to " His Most Serene Highness and Lord, Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick, my Most
Gracious Lord." Its quality of amusingness depends upon these dates, ..."
6. Brief Literary Criticisms by Richard Holt Hutton (1906)
"... give in one and the same sentence a glimpse of the reality and yet of the
amusingness of life, to reduce its scale while really multiplying its humours. ..."
7. The Metropolitan (1839)
"Wit and amusingness, fearlessness and laisser aller of conduct and demeanour, —
can they atone for the faults of Enobarbus ? They render him entertaining to ..."
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