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Definition of Dimnesses
1. dimness [n] - See also: dimness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dimnesses
Literary usage of Dimnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Views and Reviews by Henry James, Le Roy Phillips (1908)
"they have let him off, the dimnesses too often encompass him. But for Mr.
Kipling there are no dimnesses anywhere, and if the ladies are indeed violently ..."
2. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"... of morning to where the cricket sings, the extreme of pedagogic explicitness
and the extreme of elusive withdrawal into twilight dimnesses of meaning. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1880)
"Thus the brilliant interior where the children were dancing was thrown up by two
dimnesses; the girls in their light frocks, the bright faces and curls, ..."
4. Great Companions by Edith Wyatt (1917)
""Surge, surge, surge, close on the wave comes the wave behind." The whole buoyancy
and brave forward motion of life pours through the dimnesses and daily ..."
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