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Definition of Pertnesses
1. pertness [n] - See also: pertness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertnesses
Literary usage of Pertnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"After this the class was dismissed on leave, and allowed to pursue their own
irresponsible pertnesses and flirtations. But, though followed by gentlemen ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"Dinwiddie, who did not love her, having indeed undergone a hundred pertnesses
from the imperious little lady, now gave a disrespectful and ridiculous ..."
3. Letters to His Son: On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901)
"... the good-breeding and circumspection which are necessary, and only to be
learned there, correct those pertnesses. I do not doubt but that you are ..."
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