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Definition of Facileness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Facileness
Literary usage of Facileness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treasury of the English & German Languages by Joseph Cauvin (1870)
"facileness, в. (of disposition), a (in a good sense), Gefälligkeit, f., Ь (in a
bad sense), ... See facileness. Every — was offered to him , er hatte alle ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"facileness, (fas'-sil-nes) n. ». Pliancy. FACILITATION, (fa-sil-e-ta-shun) n. ».
Making easy ; freeing from impediments. To FACILITATE, (fa-sii'-e-tate) ..."
3. The Journal of Mental Science by Royal Medico-psychological Association (1871)
"Offences against public morals [eg the results of erotism, or of advantage taken
of fatuity or facileness of disposition in women; prostitution ; bastardy]. ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1854)
"... is called out by circumstances what an amount, and what very varied things,
she can do—gliding from sphere to sphere of duty with ease and facileness. ..."
5. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"Ul • envied the facileness of his pen. But when struggling genius spreading its
pinions for a trial flight, is rudely struck at, it does .. it expect to see ..."
6. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"And to the same custom I attribute the greater facileness, as compared with
neighbouring countries, with which those connections with foreigners are formed ..."
7. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"The whole comprehensive subject of the physiognomy of insanity in the lower
animals—the facial expression, the facileness or ferocity of look that ..."
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