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Definition of Exceptionalness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exceptionalness
Literary usage of Exceptionalness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals by George Eliot (1885)
"... in writing at this stage of the world, one should have either a plentiful
faith in one's own exceptionalness, or a plentiful lack of money. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"An attempt is made to get rid of the distinctive nature of miracle .ht-n the
exceptionalness of the events so regarded is reduced to ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1868)
"The cases which appear to justify it attract notice from their very exceptionalness ;
they command attention, while the hundreds of other cases where the ..."
4. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Annotated by Thomas Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"Many people,— the greater number, I believe,—have to suffer as much in some form
or other! I daresay the exceptionalness of the form ..."
5. Criticisms of life: studies in faith, hope and despair by Horace James Bridges (1915)
"The truth is that this modern attack on marriage, in its one-sidedness, and its
failure either to remember the exceptionalness of the exceptional or to ..."
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