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Definition of Quick-wittedness
1. Noun. Intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay.
Generic synonyms: Intelligence
Derivative terms: Quick-witted, Quick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quick-wittedness
Literary usage of Quick-wittedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"But in Hood the extraordinary combination of real poetical genius, taste, and
imagination, with this irrepressible quick-wittedness, raised the level of his ..."
2. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, Margaret Nanette Haight (1909)
"... which show why the national character is distinguished by traits of
quick-wittedness, humor, self- reliance, love of liberty, and democratic feeling. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... quick-wittedness could bring her out of a dilemma. She saw the inevitable.
It was much more that compunction pricked, ..."
4. Washington in Lincoln's Time by Noah Brooks (1895)
"... and for days thereafter he took pride in relating this anecdote illustrative
of Tad's quick-wittedness. Late in the evening I returned to the White ..."
5. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1907)
"... with the ensuing rescue of the dare-devil through the quick-wittedness of the
heroine, in all its details quite like Chapter VII of "Ralph ..."
6. The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire, William Joseph Hardee (1868)
"To the quick-wittedness and coolness of an Irishman the Federals were indebted
for their preservation from no small disaster, and the Confederates for ..."
7. The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire, William Joseph Hardee (1868)
"To the quick-wittedness and coolness of an Irishman the Federals were indebted
for their preservation from no small disaster, and the Confederates for ..."
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