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Definition of Remissnesses
1. remissness [n] - See also: remissness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Remissnesses
Literary usage of Remissnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Annals of Education (1828)
"I forgive you all your remissnesses and faults, since you were first entrusted
to me, and hope, that when you shall quit the schools you are soon to enter, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"For all such remissnesses, which are those we are speaking of, are but as fits
of convulsions, falling-sicknesses, apoplexies, lesser deaths, ..."
3. Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society, Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home by Clara Jessup Moore (1878)
"... and should not, therefore, set down their remissnesses to self-conceit or want
of respect for their superiors, where a charitable construction can be ..."
4. Sensible Etiquette of the Best Society, Customs, Manners, Morals, and Home by Clara Jessup Moore (1878)
"... and should not, therefore, set down their remissnesses to self-conceit or want
of respect for their superiors, where a charitable construction can be ..."
5. Reports of Practice Cases, Determined in the Courts of the State of New York by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1869)
"It will not be responsible for delays, errors and remissnesses on the part of
connecting lines, and only guarantees entire correctness when messages are ..."
6. The History of Railroad Taxation in Michigan by Wilbur Olin Hedrick (1912)
"41 The remissnesses on the part of the roads which have just been described had
not been overlooked however by legislation, since as early as a law had been ..."
7. The Harvest Within: Thoughts on the Life of the Christian by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1909)
"... remissnesses; but they are only theories. I do not herein affirm that they
are not true; I say only they are not historical. ..."
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