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Definition of Threadbareness
1. n. The state of being threadbare.
Definition of Threadbareness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being threadbare. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Threadbareness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Threadbareness
Literary usage of Threadbareness
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 (1896)
"... who would not buy his pictures; he forgot his poverty and remembered his
threadbareness no more; his ill-luck and his loneliness vanished into air. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"Among the bright-coloured or rich dresses of the ladies, hers was the only plain
one ; and even by the candle-light—so kind towards threadbareness—it showed ..."
3. The Writings of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell (1890)
"... Would make a sudden rap, rap, rap, The half-spun cord of sleep to snap, (And
what is life without its nap But threadbareness and mere mishap ? ..."
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