Definition of Bleaknesses

1. bleakness [n] - See also: bleakness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bleaknesses

bleaching clay
bleaching earth
bleaching powder
bleaching powders
bleachings
bleachlike
bleachorexia
bleacht
bleah
bleak
bleaker
bleakest
bleakish
bleakly
bleakness
bleaknesses (current term)
bleaks
bleaky
blear
blear-eyed
bleared
blearedness
blearer
blearest
bleareye
bleareyed
bleareyedness
bleargh
blearier
bleariest

Literary usage of Bleaknesses

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... and pioneer his way through the rugged ascents and desolate bleaknesses that lie before even the most gifted and gallant adventurer. ..."

2. The Garden of Asia: Impressions from Japan by Reginald John Farrer (1904)
"A ponderous god rules over the bleaknesses of Karuizawa. Pushing aside the shutters at daybreak, we see the divinity whom clouds had obscured from our sight ..."

3. The Heavenly Dykes by June Etta Downey (1904)
"... And we have wandered many a weary year; Thy wastes stretch onward, ever on; austere Before us lie thy bleaknesses; thy bar Gigantic of Alaskan frost; ..."

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