Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsoletenesses
Literary usage of Obsoletenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Through all the obsoletenesses of his language, and all the lets and impediments
to a full enjoyment of his melody caused by our ignorance of fourteenth- ..."
2. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"Disembarrassed from its barbarisms and obsoletenesses, they found a malleable
and plastic material, susceptible of multitudinous combinations, ..."
3. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"In the RAMBLER and the IDLER, there are now and then, some phraseological
obsoletenesses, which announce a comparative antiquity of date: but the stride of ..."
4. Contributions to Literature: Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical by Samuel Gilman (1856)
"... and obsoletenesses of phrase or enunciation, which might have been the height
of fashionable propriety in our youth, but which now, perhaps, ..."
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