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Definition of Pokiness
1. the state of being poky [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pokiness
Literary usage of Pokiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1911)
"It prepared the way for a more comely form of literary worship, divorced from
that unnecessary New England pokiness. He wrote of books as books and not as ..."
2. The Art of Preaching by Charles Reynolds Brown (1922)
"And dullness, pokiness, monotony, "make the word of God of no effect" as we preach
it quite as surely as all the deadly heresies condemned by the Councils ..."
3. The Art of Preaching by Charles Reynolds Brown (1922)
"And dullness, pokiness, monotony, "make the word of God of no effect" as we preach
it quite as surely as all the deadly heresies condemned by the Councils ..."
4. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"... of responsibility that keeps a man of thought from simulating the effectiveness
of a man of action is not all conservatism, not all academic pokiness. ..."
5. Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (1903)
"The pokiness of the poky house did not trouble me, but its situation was detestable.
Never will I live in a terrace house again, if 1 can help it. ..."
6. Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (1903)
"The pokiness of the poky house did not trouble me, but its situation was detestable.
Never will I live in a terrace house again, if 1 can help it. ..."
7. The Bookman (1911)
"It prepared the way for a more comely form of literary worship, divorced from
that unnecessary New England pokiness. He wrote of books as books and not as ..."
8. The Art of Preaching by Charles Reynolds Brown (1922)
"And dullness, pokiness, monotony, "make the word of God of no effect" as we preach
it quite as surely as all the deadly heresies condemned by the Councils ..."
9. The Art of Preaching by Charles Reynolds Brown (1922)
"And dullness, pokiness, monotony, "make the word of God of no effect" as we preach
it quite as surely as all the deadly heresies condemned by the Councils ..."
10. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"... of responsibility that keeps a man of thought from simulating the effectiveness
of a man of action is not all conservatism, not all academic pokiness. ..."
11. Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (1903)
"The pokiness of the poky house did not trouble me, but its situation was detestable.
Never will I live in a terrace house again, if 1 can help it. ..."
12. Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge (1903)
"The pokiness of the poky house did not trouble me, but its situation was detestable.
Never will I live in a terrace house again, if 1 can help it. ..."
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