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Definition of Newnesses
1. newness [n] - See also: newness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newnesses
Literary usage of Newnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"His own generation rejected Thoreau. They could see in him only an imitator of
Emerson and an exploiter of newnesses in an age grown weary of ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"He was full of fresh talk concerning his own country, and we all admired his
cleverness in compassing so aptly all the little newnesses of the situation. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"... leaving their campa standing, had, after a slight resistance, fled, completely
disorganised — the one to the mountain (newnesses iu the neighbourhood of ..."
4. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1890)
"... this man did not go about in quest of newnesses; only little geniuses do that;
but the great genius goes along every commonest roadside, ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1909)
"... thousands of human beings' have sprung up—whole boulevards, avenues of young,
green trees, roofs, cliffs of pure, white walls. All those newnesses you ..."
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