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Definition of Saplessness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saplessness
Literary usage of Saplessness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"The dryness of this work and its poverty of thought are outdone only by the
absurdity of its etymologies. Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
2. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"The dryness of this work and its poverty of thought are outdone only by the
absurdity of its etymologies. Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
3. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"... its poverty of thought are outdone only by the absurdity of its etymologies.
Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
4. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"The dryness of this work and its poverty of thought are outdone only by the
absurdity of its etymologies. Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
5. Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Taine (1889)
"... an accent, a sonorousness, an emphasis perfectly admirable, whereof the
saplessness of the same French words is powerless to render the effect. ..."
6. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1885)
"The good in it, tho life of it, the veracity and liberty of it, such as it has,
are Protestantism in its heart; the rigidity and saplessness are the ..."
7. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1851)
"The good in it, the life of it, the merits and belief of it, such as it has, are
Protestantism in its heart ; the rigidity and saplessness are the Romanism ..."
8. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"The dryness of this work and its poverty of thought are outdone only by the
absurdity of its etymologies. Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
9. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1911)
"The dryness of this work and its poverty of thought are outdone only by the
absurdity of its etymologies. Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
10. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"... its poverty of thought are outdone only by the absurdity of its etymologies.
Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
11. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"The dryness of this work and its poverty of thought are outdone only by the
absurdity of its etymologies. Another work, kin in its saplessness, ..."
12. Lectures on Art by Hippolyte Taine (1889)
"... an accent, a sonorousness, an emphasis perfectly admirable, whereof the
saplessness of the same French words is powerless to render the effect. ..."
13. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1885)
"The good in it, tho life of it, the veracity and liberty of it, such as it has,
are Protestantism in its heart; the rigidity and saplessness are the ..."
14. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1851)
"The good in it, the life of it, the merits and belief of it, such as it has, are
Protestantism in its heart ; the rigidity and saplessness are the Romanism ..."
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