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Definition of Braininess
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Braininess
Literary usage of Braininess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1910)
"... "breeziness" and "braininess" we hoped for something greater still. We do not
deny that he made himself the man he now is—and a mighty feat it was. ..."
2. The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904: A Story of the Great Exploration by Olin Dunbar Wheeler (1904)
"... and a braininess and discriminating common sense in his conduct of public and
business affairs, worthy of study and to be patterned after in these ..."
3. Little Visits With Great Americans by Marden, Orison Swett (1904)
"... allied to his general wit 1891 began to conduct the well- and braininess, have
made his editor- known publication with which he is ials famous ..."
4. I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days by Mary MacLane (1917)
"That my melancholy is more lustrous than hers I lay to her native dullness as
against my native braininess, and to alcohol's ..."
5. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"... we have in mind Napoleon, the greatest example of "braininess," who came from
nothing and who gained everything by sheer force of intellect. ..."
6. Danger Signals for Teachers by Albert Edward Winship (1919)
"A young man must sacrifice handiness or braininess if he went to school, or both
by not going to school, and the Government appeared to have no care ..."
7. The Bookman (1910)
"... "breeziness" and "braininess" we hoped for something greater still. We do not
deny that he made himself the man he now is—and a mighty feat it was. ..."
8. The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904: A Story of the Great Exploration by Olin Dunbar Wheeler (1904)
"... and a braininess and discriminating common sense in his conduct of public and
business affairs, worthy of study and to be patterned after in these ..."
9. Little Visits With Great Americans by Marden, Orison Swett (1904)
"... allied to his general wit 1891 began to conduct the well- and braininess, have
made his editor- known publication with which he is ials famous ..."
10. I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days by Mary MacLane (1917)
"That my melancholy is more lustrous than hers I lay to her native dullness as
against my native braininess, and to alcohol's ..."
11. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"... we have in mind Napoleon, the greatest example of "braininess," who came from
nothing and who gained everything by sheer force of intellect. ..."
12. Danger Signals for Teachers by Albert Edward Winship (1919)
"A young man must sacrifice handiness or braininess if he went to school, or both
by not going to school, and the Government appeared to have no care ..."
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