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Definition of Harshnesses
1. harshness [n] - See also: harshness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harshnesses
Literary usage of Harshnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel (1893)
"A few harshnesses or inaccuracies of language do not matter. I feel for the author
a respect mingled with emotion. How rare it is to find a book in which ..."
2. Manual of Simple and Double Counterpoint by Ernst Friedrich Richter (1884)
"I avail myself of this opportunity to call attention to numerous harshnesses in
the style of S. BACH; not of the kind touched upon above, but rather, ..."
3. Harmonic Analysis: A Course in the Analysis of the Chords and of the Non by Benjamin Cutter (1902)
"These harshnesses add to the interest of the Sequence, and, as is usual, may be
compensated for by the outcome of the whole passage in bland ..."
4. Works by Francis Bacon, James Spedding (1864)
"The sound which I speak of as belonging to Grammar relates only to sweetnesses
and harshnesses. Of these some are common to all nations ; for there is no ..."
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