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Definition of Floridities
1. floridity [n] - See also: floridity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floridities
Literary usage of Floridities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"... with all sorts of floridities and worn-out ornaments. Mr. Frost is an honest
writer, writing from himself, from his own knowledge and emotion; ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"... enabled amateurs to seize hold of them, who were unable to cope with the
floridities of Rossini. In this new school Donizetti was a peer of Bellini, ..."
3. The Musical World (1861)
"... delicate beings in whom the action of the heart was weak, paralysed Topaze
and Georgette in no time. They are now no more. Peace to their floridities! ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... enabled amateurs to seize hold of them who were unable to cope with tho
floridities of Rossini. In this new school Donizetti was the peer of Bellini, ..."
5. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays by John Galsworthy (1913)
"And how dangerous a word— often misleading us into slabbing with extraneous
floridities what would otherwise, on its own plane, be Art! ..."
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