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Definition of Inimitableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inimitableness
Literary usage of Inimitableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... and therefore the inimitableness. of his style, he would be an even better
general model than Addison; and, as it is, he is unquestionably the best ..."
2. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1871)
"... now have been offering prizes for competition in art schools, nor lecturing
with tender sentiment on the inimitableness of the works of Fra Angelico. ..."
3. On the Study of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold (1867)
"... or in the productions of the Italians; but there will be a stamp of perfectness
and inimitableness about it in the literatures where it is native, ..."
4. Shakespeare and Voltaire by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1902)
"... reputation of Shakespeare won from him the tribute of conventional respect
and conceded inimitableness; but the inferiority of that author to himself in ..."
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