Lexicographical Neighbors of Livableness
Literary usage of Livableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
""Livableness" represents our final test rather than ... The test of "livableness"
must also be applied to the process by which knowledge is gained. ..."
2. The Stability of Truth: A Discussion of Reality as Related to Thought and Action by David Starr Jordan (1911)
"The final test of truth is, then, its " livableness," the degree to which we may
trust our ... Livableness seems to represent our final test rather than ..."
3. Some Modern French Writers: A Study in Bergsonism by Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes, Henri Bergson (1921)
"wishes to testify to the livableness of life, and, not content with writing
wonderful recitatives which he calls poems, he tries to reinforce their effect ..."
4. The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (1897)
"At present, however, the subject deals only with the material livableness of a
room, and this will generally be found to consist in the position of the ..."
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