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Definition of Picturesqueness
1. Noun. The quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid.
2. Noun. Visually vivid and pleasing.
Definition of Picturesqueness
1. Noun. The condition of being picturesque ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Picturesqueness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Picturesqueness
Literary usage of Picturesqueness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"A certain picturesqueness—at least the picturesqueness of variety—distinguishes
the religious aspect of the country under the Cromwellian regime. ..."
2. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1896)
"Expression heightened for the Sake of picturesqueness. ... Poetic picturesqueness
is sought first of all by imagery or word-painting. ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"There is a variety and picturesqueness, which is asso- glorious prodigality of
color and sweet ciated with memories of President Taft odor, an inspiriting ..."
4. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"This, however, is directly responsible for the picturesqueness of the general
effect, which ia farther enhanced by the clinging ivy and the verdant trees. ..."
5. Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado by Stanley Wood (1889)
"Entrance to Baker's Park, in which the town lies, is made through the famous
Animas Canon. Hid in a theatre of hills, the picturesqueness of the ..."
6. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... these two,—the whole making up a group of edifices unequalled for picturesqueness
and interest by anything of their class that exists in Central India. ..."
7. Composition and Rhetoric by Practice: With Exercises, Adapted for Use in by William Williams (1890)
"Among these qualities may be mentioned Perspicuity, picturesqueness, Force,
Pathos, The Ludicrous, ... Intellectual: Perspicuity and picturesqueness; 2. ..."
8. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"A certain picturesqueness—at least the picturesqueness of variety—distinguishes
the religious aspect of the country under the Cromwellian regime. ..."
9. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1896)
"Expression heightened for the Sake of picturesqueness. ... Poetic picturesqueness
is sought first of all by imagery or word-painting. ..."
10. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"There is a variety and picturesqueness, which is asso- glorious prodigality of
color and sweet ciated with memories of President Taft odor, an inspiriting ..."
11. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"This, however, is directly responsible for the picturesqueness of the general
effect, which ia farther enhanced by the clinging ivy and the verdant trees. ..."
12. Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado by Stanley Wood (1889)
"Entrance to Baker's Park, in which the town lies, is made through the famous
Animas Canon. Hid in a theatre of hills, the picturesqueness of the ..."
13. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1885)
"... these two,—the whole making up a group of edifices unequalled for picturesqueness
and interest by anything of their class that exists in Central India. ..."
14. Composition and Rhetoric by Practice: With Exercises, Adapted for Use in by William Williams (1890)
"Among these qualities may be mentioned Perspicuity, picturesqueness, Force,
Pathos, The Ludicrous, ... Intellectual: Perspicuity and picturesqueness; 2. ..."
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