Definition of Bitternesses

1. bitterness [n] - See also: bitterness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitternesses

bitterbump
bittercress
bittercresses
bittered
bitterer
bitterest
bitterful
bittering
bitterings
bitterish
bitterling
bitterlings
bitterly
bittern
bitterness
bitternesses (current term)
bitterns
bitternut
bitternut hickory
bitternuts
bitterroot
bitterroots
bitters
bittersweet
bittersweet chocolate
bittersweet nightshade
bittersweetly
bittersweetness
bittersweets
bitterweed

Literary usage of Bitternesses

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

1. Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel (1893)
"... let me wipe out all personal grievances and bitternesses ; forgive all, judge no one ; in enmity and ill-will, see only misunderstanding. ..."

2. Twenty-five years of my life by Alphonse de Lamartine, Mme. Alix des Roys de Lamartine, Mary Elizabeth Herbert Herbert, Louis de Bouchaud (1872)
"its sweetnesses and its bitternesses. To learn to suffer, is not that to learn to live ?' XXVII. ..."

3. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament by Augustine (1844)
"For for this cause does God mingle bitternesses with the felicities of earth, that another felicity may be sought, in whose sweetness there is no deceit ..."

4. The Minor Prophets: With a Commentary Explanatory and Practical and by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1885)
"Living in sin," as we eay, dwelling in bitternesses, she looked for good! bitternesses ! for it is ' an eril thing and bitter, that thou hast ..."

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