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Definition of Dullnesses
1. dullness [n] - See also: dullness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dullnesses
Literary usage of Dullnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"His mistakes and occasional dullnesses, like some of Chaucer's, are often due to
his instinct for being representative—for giving utterance to every new ..."
2. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1824)
"This is pleasant enough; possibly their dullnesses might be suspected of a little
liking to the detail.—T. f The constitution of Gregory XV. it dated August ..."
3. Great Companions by Edith Wyatt (1917)
"... and daily dullnesses of the poet's long struggle in his cluttered room, his
poverty, his helplessness, his confinement, more splendidly than in the open ..."
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