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Definition of Pungencies
1. pungency [n] - See also: pungency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pungencies
Literary usage of Pungencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... 'Pulpit pungencies' and 'Royal Truths' (1866); 'Morning and Evening Devotional
Exercises' (1870); and 'Comforting Truths' (1884). For some years, also, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1891)
"Tupper's Complete Poet. Works. Buckle, Hist, of Civilization. Beecher's Pulpit
pungencies. Newton, King's Highway. " Safe Compass. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... and becomes the phonetic sign of the sound G the unmitigated distress which
believers feel from the pungencies or condescensions of the negative side. ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1860)
"... to the lover of literature who seeks accurate knowledge of books and their
authors, who would have the curiosities and pungencies of criticism, ..."
5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"It is de reale on each side to maintain a fine show of indifference to the prick
of their adversary's pungencies. ..."
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