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Definition of Soothingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soothingness
Literary usage of Soothingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Henry James by Henry James (1920)
"by the straightest way (Calais, Brussels, Cologne, and Frankfort,) to this place
of thick woods, groves, springs and general Kurort soothingness, ..."
2. An Introduction to Poetry: For Students of English Literature by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1909)
"In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but not slumberous monotony; for
Spenser was no mere me- trist, but a great composer. ..."
3. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"Going late ashore, (I couldn't give up the beauty and soothingness of the night,)
as I staid around, or slowly wander'd, I heard the echoing calls of the ..."
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