Lexicographical Neighbors of Offensivenesses
Literary usage of Offensivenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"... truth, and simplicity, even under many disadvantages and indeed positive
offensivenesses of style and manner, found to be in a species of composition ..."
2. Cities of Northern and Central Italy by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1876)
"... and sickening offensivenesses, it is of all its voids most void in this, that
the academy models therein huddled together at the bottom show not so much ..."
3. Cities of central Italy by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1884)
"... and sickening offensivenesses, it is of all its voids most void in this, that
the academy models therein huddled together at the bottom show not so much ..."
4. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... and sickening offensivenesses, is of all its voids most void in this, that
the academy models therein huddled together at the bottom, show not so much ..."
5. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1888)
"... and sickening offensivenesses, is of all its voids most void in this, that
the academy models therein huddled together at the bottom, show not so much ..."
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