Definition of Loosenesses

1. looseness [n] - See also: looseness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loosenesses

loosefill
loosehead
looseheads
looseleaf
loosely
loosely knit
loosen
loosen the apron strings
loosen the purse strings
loosen up
loosened
loosener
looseners
looseness
looseness of the bowels
loosenesses (current term)
loosening
loosens
looser
looses
loosest
loosestrife
loosestrife family
loosestrifes
looseth
loosey
loosey-goosey
loosey goosey

Literary usage of Loosenesses

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

1. Consumption: Its Prevention and Cure by the Water Treatment: With Advice by Joel Shew (1855)
"These are much better thnn Cathartic Medicines.—Rules for their Use.—Good in loosenesses of the Bowels as well as in Constipation. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"The doctrine of these last ia full of loosenesses, or, if you will, of errors ; still—singular as it may seem, it is undeniable—they are the better ..."

3. Essays by Matthew Arnold: Including Essays in Criticism, 1865, On by Matthew Arnold, Francis William Newman (1914)
"The doctrine of these last is -full of loosenesses, or, if you will, of errors ; still,—singular as it may seem, it is undeniable,—they are the better ..."

4. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1891)
"We are told that the teeth of the whiting and pollock are absorbent when reduced to powder, and good against loosenesses and spitting of blood. ..."

5. Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold (1866)
"The doctrine of these last is full of loosenesses, or, if you will, of errors; still, — singular as it may seem, it is undeniable, — they are the better ..."

6. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1889)
"When one comes to combine the exact data of science with such loosenesses of expression, one sees that they are incommensurable, and that the result must be ..."

7. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"At Maidstone, in Kent, great Numbers of People have been taken ill, and many carried off with violent Vomitings and loosenesses, which generally hold them ..."

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