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Definition of Extraordinariness

1. Noun. The quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered.

Definition of Extraordinariness

1. n. The quality of being extraordinary.

Definition of Extraordinariness

1. Noun. The property of being extraordinary. ¹

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Literary usage of Extraordinariness

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"Each, therefore, singly, may have excited this common sentiment of extraordinariness with respect to the same particular quality ; and the feeling of ..."

2. Inquiry Into the Relation of Cause and Effect by Thomas Brown (1835)
"The extraordinariness of the event, in both cases, should indeed, ... But the extraordinariness, though demanding greater caution, does not, of itself, ..."

3. The Other Side of the "story,": Being Some Reviews of Mr. J. C. Dent's First by John King (1886)
"... extraordinariness." The author's description of Rolph is one of the most unique things to be found in history or biography anywhere. ..."

4. The American Presbyterian Review by Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood (1861)
"He only shows that the cases of non-miraculous events which the defenders of miracles have cited as parallel (in point of extraordinariness) with miracles, ..."

5. Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp, John Parker Anderson (1897)
"The extraordinariness of the feat would then be but indifferently commented upon. As neither its subject, nor its extraordinariness as a feat, ..."

6. American Prose Masters: Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--Poe--Lowell--Henry James by William Crary Brownell (1909)
"It attests not the merit but the extraordinariness of his writings, and a little, no doubt, the extraordinariness of their being produced in America. ..."

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