Definition of Slipperinesses

1. Noun. (plural of slipperiness) ¹

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Definition of Slipperinesses

1. slipperiness [n] - See also: slipperiness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipperinesses

slipped tendon disease
slipper
slipper-orchid
slipper animalcule
slipper chair
slipper lobster
slipper lobsters
slipper orchid
slipper plant
slipper spurge
slippered
slipperier
slipperiest
slipperily
slipperiness
slipperinesses (current term)
slippering
slipperings
slipperless
slipperlike
slipperness
slippers
slipperwort
slipperworts
slippery
slippery as an eel
slippery elm
slippery jack
slippery jacks

Literary usage of Slipperinesses

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

1. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne (1910)
"... nothing is old, nor new to mine; and as to that life, all stickings and hesitations seem stupid and stony, so to this, all fluid slipperinesses, ..."

2. A Compendious Hebrew Lexicon, Adapted to the English Language, and Composed by Samuel Pike (1811)
"... slipperinesses, Psal. xxxv. 6. flatteries, Dan. xi. 21, 34. slippery ways, Jer. xxiii. 1 2. ?n to weaken, discomfit, Exod. xvii. 13. Isai. xiv. ..."

3. Commentary on the Psalms by Heinrich Ewald, Edwin Johnson (1881)
"... that assigned to them by the Divine allotment. This is indicated as briefly as possible at the end of the strophe, ver. 18 : only in slipperinesses Thou ..."

4. The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical by John Ruskin, William Burgess (1907)
"... in speech for breathing time, and slipperinesses in speech for hiding time,—to polish malice to the deadliest edge, ..."

5. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1906)
"... in speech for breathing time, and slipperinesses in speech for hiding time,—to polish .malice to the deadliest edge, shape profession to the ..."

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