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Definition of Distantness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distantness
Literary usage of Distantness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life with Trans-Siberian Savages by Benjamin Douglas Howard (1893)
"They are also smaller or larger, according to the highness, distantness, or, as
we would call it, god, any particular stick in question, is intended to ..."
2. Love Poems by Reginald Chauncey Robbins (1912)
"Love, Thy distantness for guide divine ; and, love, Within me love for image of
thy lamps' Flickering, as the night-breeze in the boughs Sways ever the ..."
3. Wreckage by Hubert Crackanthorpe (1893)
"She was conscious of a distantness in his indulgence towards her, that he was
constantly " thinking apart" from her, as if he were never quite off his guard ..."
4. The Book of the Sonnet by Leigh Hunt, S Adams Lee (1867)
"How have our lives and wills (as haply erst They were, ere this forgetfulness
begun) Through all their earthly distantness outburst, ..."
5. Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry by Samuel Gordon (1900)
"... he could not say that her words breathed a spirit of chilling distantness.
The almost exultant pride wherewith she touched on Phil's achievements was ..."
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