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Definition of Bonyness
1. Noun. Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease).
Generic synonyms: Leanness, Spareness, Thinness
Derivative terms: Boney, Bony, Bony, Emaciate, Emaciate, Gaunt, Macerate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonyness
Literary usage of Bonyness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Public Speaking by James Albert Winans (1917)
"The true way to get rid of the bonyness of your sermon is not by leaving out the
skeleton, but by clothing it with flesh. True liberty in writing comes by ..."
2. Lectures on Preaching, Delivered Before the Divinity School of Yale College by Phillips Brooks (1877)
"The true way to get rid of the bonyness of your sermon is not by leaving out the
skeleton, but by clothing it with flesh. True liberty in writing comes by ..."
3. The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and by Theodore Winthrop (1863)
"... but humanly bony, and muscular over bonyness, cannot for hours beat upon
pebbles unbruised. So I had a night of weary unrest. The wild rush of the river ..."
4. Successful Preachers by George Jennings Davies (1884)
"The true way to get rid of the bonyness of your sermon is not by leaving out the
skeleton, but by clothing it with flesh. True liberty in writing comes by ..."
5. Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton (1917)
"The true way to get rid of the bonyness of your sermon is not by leaving out the
skeleton, but by clothing it with flesh. True liberty in writing comes by ..."
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