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Definition of Detachedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detachedness
Literary usage of Detachedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1883)
"... contributed to that lofty detachedness from men and circumstances that makes
him stand out among his contemporaries in striking solitude, like a Scotch ..."
2. The United States of Europe on the Eve of the Parliament of Peace by William Thomas Stead (1899)
"His ambition, his energy, and his detachedness of mind may make him a more
effective instrument than one who was more heartily in accord with the order of ..."
3. Education Through the Imagination by Margaret McMillan (1904)
"The horror of the man in the street for the nude model is in strange contrast to
the detachedness of the real artist at work on the study of the nude. ..."
4. The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway to the South by Charles George Harper (1906)
"... you leave for awhile the shops and the continuous, conjoined houses, and
arrive, past the transitional stage of semi-detachedness, at the wholly blest ..."
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