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Definition of Donnishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donnishness
Literary usage of Donnishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William George Ward and the Catholic Revival by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1893)
"... disliked the donnishness and 1 "You know," he writes in a letter, " I have no
affection for my children ..."
2. Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, M.A., Incumbent of Trinity by Frederick William Robertson, Stopford Augustus Brooke (1873)
"... There is something excessively chilling in the donnishness of Oxford, which
insinuates its unlovely spirit everywhere, — lecture, chapel, pulpit, union, ..."
3. The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton by Isabel Burton (1893)
"Moreover, an indescribable appearance of donnishness or incipient donnishness
pervaded the whole lot. The juniors looked like schoolboys who aspired to be ..."
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