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Definition of Fretfulness
1. Noun. An irritable petulant feeling.
Generic synonyms: Distemper, Ill Humor, Ill Humour
Specialized synonyms: Testiness, Tetchiness, Touchiness, Pet
Derivative terms: Fretful, Fussy, Irritable, Peevish, Petulant
Definition of Fretfulness
1. Noun. The quality of being fretful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fretfulness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fretfulness
Literary usage of Fretfulness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"fretfulness is a kind of anger. Anger is the artillery ; fret- fulness the ...
Ed. fretfulness is always chiefly against the Lord, and is as ungrateful, ..."
2. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"... Perseverance may finally decide by a Trifle.—Fortitude.—Alarmists.—Excitement
and Injustice.—Rabies civica.— Calmness of Soul.—Political fretfulness. ..."
3. The Marthas; or, The varieties of female piety by Robert Philip (1836)
"VARIETIES, FROM fretfulness. ANY one can expose or reprove that feverish and
fretful care, which is always foreboding the worst, or embittering life by ..."
4. Intellect, the Emotions, and the Moral Nature by William Lyall (1855)
"They rather awaken sorrow, vexation, melancholy, fretfulness. The objects or
sources of the former are of a pleasant or agreeable nature, having in them the ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes: A Collection of Nearly Three by Kazlitt Arvine (1848)
"fretfulness. (a) "I DON'T WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN."—Ther% was a clergyman, who was
of nervous temperament, and often became quite vexed, by finding his little ..."
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