Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamentableness
Literary usage of Lamentableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells (1910)
"If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos,
its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"... still in its lamentableness, the disaster did not concern Mr. Selincourt so
nearly as to prevent him from discussing it temperately. ..."
3. Men and Missions by William Thomas Ellis (1909)
"Its lamentableness is almost equaled by its ludicrousness. For who can define
home missions or foreign missions, or draw a plain line between the two? ..."
4. The Training of Men for the World's Future by Charles Franklin Thwing (1916)
"... 1914, proved how mistaken the blessed thought was; and every day which has
dawned since that fatal month has accented the lamentableness of the mistake. ..."
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