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Definition of Comparativeness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comparativeness
Literary usage of Comparativeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1891)
"To make up for the comparativeness lightness and monotony of their food, the
Japanese take plenty of it. It is the custom, too, ..."
2. The Healing of the Nations by Charles Linton, Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (1855)
"This comparativeness of positions in the outward mass results from the same scale
within each individual one of the mass. 43. If a man's spiritual powers ..."
3. Sessional Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects by Royal Institute of British Architects (1876)
"Now, if the assertion as to the comparativeness of the group of arts at any given
period be true, it follows that the rules which govern their composition ..."
4. British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation by William D. Drury (1903)
"... wanting in the organ of comparativeness, or the weasels of his time were of
Brobdingnagian proportions compared with ours; but the point is, if Melita, ..."
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