Definition of Homesicknesses

1. Noun. (plural of homesickness) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Homesicknesses

1. homesickness [n] - See also: homesickness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homesicknesses

homeroom
homerooms
homers
homes
homes for the aged
homeschool
homeschooled
homeschooler
homeschoolers
homeschooling
homeschools
homeshoring
homesick
homesickly
homesickness
homesicknesses (current term)
homesite
homesites
homesitter
homesitters
homesitting
homeslice
homeslices
homesourcing
homespun
homespun(p)
homespun fabric
homespuns
homestall
homestalls

Literary usage of Homesicknesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pushing to the Front: Or, Success Under Difficulties; a Book of Inspiration by Orison Swett Marden (1894)
""Our yearnings," says Buecher, "are homesicknesses for heaven. Our sighings are sighings for God, just as children cry themselves asleep away from home, ..."

2. Trucking to the Trenches: Letters from France, June-November 1917 by John Iden Kautz (1918)
"... sort of life — the homesicknesses and memories and all the reasons that made me want to come home can be kept down most of the time, and we shall learn ..."

3. Breathings of the Better Life by Lucy Larcom (1881)
"not knowing what the soul wants, but only that it needs something. Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven: our ..."

4. The Cambrian (1900)
"... and wars and disorders, and homesicknesses and blasted hopes and broken hearts, and love and peace and happiness. Music, in its major and minor strains, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Thoughts edited by Tryon Edwards (1908)
"Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven.—Our sighing« are sigh- ings for Qod, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, ..."

6. Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by Henry Ward Beecher (1858)
"Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven ; our sigh- ings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their ..."

7. Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher by Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1859)
"Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven ; our sigh- ings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their ..."

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