Definition of Franknesses

1. frankness [n] - See also: frankness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Franknesses

frankincense pine
frankincenses
franking
franking machine
frankings
franklin
franklinfurnaceite
franklinic
franklinic taste
franklinite
franklinites
franklinphilite
franklins
frankly
frankness
franknesses
frankpledge
frankpledges
franks
franseria
franserias
fransoletite
frantic
frantically
frantick
frantickly
franticly
franticness
franticnesses
franzier

Literary usage of Franknesses

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

1. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... have known such franknesses and the penalties you paid. "When I found heart's desire speaking clamorously to you, I turned my eyes away and strove to go ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"This is her Book of Verses — wren-like notes, Shy franknesses, blind gropings, haunting fears; At times across the chords abruptly floats A mist of ..."

3. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"This is her Book of Verses—wren-like notes, Shy franknesses, blind gropings, haunting fears; At times across the chords abruptly floats A mist of passionate ..."

4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1916)
"It was a curious gesture on the part of a man whose franknesses were as clean-cut as his silences. " Well — " he began. " I don't know. Perhaps. ..."

5. The Later Nineteenth Century by George Saintsbury (1907)
"It was one of the numerous and rather fatal franknesses of Froude's enemy and predecessor in the Oxford Chair of History, Edward Augustus Freeman ..."

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