Definition of Rotundities

1. Noun. (plural of rotundity) ¹

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Definition of Rotundities

1. rotundity [n] - See also: rotundity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rotundities

rotulae
rotular
rotulas
rotulet
rotulets
rotulus
rotund
rotunda
rotundas
rotundate
rotunded
rotunder
rotundest
rotundifolious
rotunding
rotundities (current term)
rotundity
rotundly
rotundness
rotundnesses
rotundone
rotunds
roturer
roturers
roturier
roturiers
rotynge
rouaite
roubaultite
rouble

Literary usage of Rotundities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"The result was that Père Michaux's dogs were known as far as they could be seen by their fat sides, the only rotundities in dog-flesh within a circle of ..."

2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1906)
"... and covering with white light the silvery sprays of the palms, while the clouds in the "Jacob's Dream" are the ordinary rotundities of the studio. 27. ..."

3. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1853)
"... and covering with white light the silvery sprays of the palms, while the clouds in the " Jacob's Dream" are the ordinary rotundities of the studio. 27. ..."

4. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... etc., the inversions and high-sounding rotundities, familiar to his predecessors: all the rhetorical excesses through which most Victorian poetry now ..."

5. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... for sooths, etc., the inversions and high-sounding rotundities, familiar to his predecessors: all the rhetorical excesses through which most Victorian ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"One peers curiously at the dim suggestion of vast rotundities that stretch, immeasurable, into darkness. ..."

7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... he experimented upon those lay-figures whose plastic rotundities exhibited hie artful taste in the arrangement of draperies and colour ; but in these ..."

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