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Definition of Doltishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doltishness
Literary usage of Doltishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, stupidity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness.
Foment, va 1. Stupe, bathe with warm lotions, apply warm lotions to. 2. ..."
2. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"... chaste ears: or some extreme shew of doltishness indeed fit to lift up a loud
laughter and nothing else: where the whole tract of a comedy should be ..."
3. The Bookman (1899)
"... that a loose public opinion and the complacency or doltishness of criticism
lead to the scene of their exposure, the second Deluge will not be far off. ..."
4. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"... chaste ears: or some extreme shew of doltishness indeed fit to lift up a loud
laughter and nothing else: where the whole tract of a comedy should be ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"Your friends, whose momentary elevation put you во beside yourself, have been
turned off for pure doltishness and hopeless incapacity ; and where are all ..."
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