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Definition of Nicenesses
1. niceness [n] - See also: niceness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nicenesses
Literary usage of Nicenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton Jesse Hendrick, Woodrow Wilson (1922)
"... often explosive energy; a disposition to underrate fine drawn nicenesses of
all sorts; ingrained Yankee common sense, checking his vaulting enthusiasm; ..."
2. The whole works of ... Jeremy Taylor, with a life of the author and a by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1856)
"To this I reduce such peevish and unhandsome nicenesses in matters of religion,
that are unsatisfied unless they have all exterior circumstances trimmed up ..."
3. Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief by Wdward Edwards (1884)
"SELDEN'S more robust mind, and his wider sympathies, shocked some of the puritanic
nicenesses of ..."
4. New Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1895)
"... who in his method would fain be the disciple of our English Bacon; Sainte-Beuve,
ever alert and mobile, ever fitting his mind to the nicenesses of fact, ..."
5. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"But you money-making men, sir, don't understand the nicenesses of us women with
regard to nature." " Do pray leave off scolding now, there's a dear good ..."
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