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Definition of Asperities
1. asperity [n] - See also: asperity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asperities
Literary usage of Asperities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1854)
"was silently softening its asperities, and the revolutions of The golden age of
Puritanism was passing away. Time 1 °' never acknowledged Richard Cromwell; ..."
2. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"XVIII Of the asperities of certain bodies, which appear to be exceedingly Sharp
and highly Polished. If a needle, apparently very sharp, be viewed through ..."
3. Imaginary Obligations by Frank Moore Colby (1908)
"VI asperities OF PEACEMAKING Is IT because we are jingoes that we are so little
stirred by the sort of things certain earnest writers are saying against war ..."
4. Forest Life by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1844)
"... but it is my deliberate conviction that next to Religion—heartfelt operative
Religion — a true love of reading is the best softener of the asperities of ..."
5. The Southern Review by Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1872)
"Bench and Bar: A Complete Digest of the Wit, Humor, asperities, and Amenities of
the Law. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1871. 4. Essay on Irish Bulls. ..."
6. Geological Travels by Jean André de LUC (1811)
"trophes, which have given to the surface of the earth its present form, are
obliterated from the eyes of the superficial observer; small asperities have ..."
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