Definition of Soddenness

1. Noun. The property of being sodden. ¹

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Definition of Soddenness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soddenness

sodalists
sodalite
sodalites
sodalities
sodality
sodamide
sodamides
sodas
sodbuster
sodbusters
sodded
sodden
soddened
soddening
soddenly
soddenness (current term)
soddennesses
soddens
soddie
soddier
soddies
soddiest
sodding
sodding(a)
sodding hell
soddy
soddyite
sodger
sodgers
sodian

Literary usage of Soddenness

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

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They are also largely used ground for stock food, but for this purpose the meal is generally mixed with other meal to lessen its soddenness. ..."

2. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... turning himself about with the slow gravity of beery soddenness, Deputy makes a pretty wide circuit into the road and stands on the defensive. ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"... hers being the commonest type of Irish faces, flat, broad, round as an apple-dumpling, with a complexion of the dumpling hue and soddenness. ..."

4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"Merely, therefore, hinting at the deferred dinner, and the consequent soddenness of boiled, and aridity of roast, she affectionately inquired if anything of ..."

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