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Definition of Diffusenesses
1. diffuseness [n] - See also: diffuseness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diffusenesses
Literary usage of Diffusenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1908)
"... and no doubt seduced me into diffusenesses which I must ask the kind reader
to pardon. Until recently it was my intent not to publish these ..."
2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1875)
"The repetitions and diffusenesses of argument and language are scarcely pardonable,
even in view of the great and peculiar excellencies of the treatise. ..."
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School by Alois Brandl (1887)
"The thoroughness with which he sought to present his subject, betrayed him into
terrible diffusenesses. He rambled so far wide and aside, and left the chief ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1875)
"The repetitions and diffusenesses of argument and language are scarcely pardonable,
even in view of the great and peculiar excellencies of the treatise. ..."
5. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, William Archibald Dunning (1907)
"... of story-telling, the joy of literary production, came over me, and no doubt
seduced me into diffusenesses which I must ask the kind reader to pardon. ..."
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