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Definition of Rawnesses
1. rawness [n] - See also: rawness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rawnesses
Literary usage of Rawnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1916)
"He seems, in one phase, a child of nature, impatient with the repellent rawnesses
of a new "civilization," and ever welcoming the simpler types and wider ..."
2. The Letters of William James by William James (1920)
"Certainly the instruction and facilities at our university are on the whole
superior to anything I have seen; the rawnesses we mention with such affliction ..."
3. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1906)
"It seems to me as if one could see the plainest by revisions of this kind, what
sort of spirit has descended on one, and what rawnesses one has sloughed off ..."
4. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"... and these rawnesses of American existence, so conceived, have as little part
in a polite literacy as have peanuts in the poetry of Oscar Wilde. ..."
5. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"Outside their view lies the life of the proletarian except as it impinges on the
middle class, and these rawnesses of American existence, so conceived, ..."
6. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"Outside their view lies the life of the proletarian except as it impinges on the
middle class, and these rawnesses of American existence, so conceived, ..."
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