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Definition of Rotundities
1. rotundity [n] - See also: rotundity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rotundities
Literary usage of Rotundities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1881)
"The result was that Père Michaux's dogs were known as far as they could be seen
by their fat sides, the only rotundities in dog-flesh within a circle of ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1906)
"... and covering with white light the silvery sprays of the palms, while the clouds
in the "Jacob's Dream" are the ordinary rotundities of the studio. 27. ..."
3. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1853)
"... and covering with white light the silvery sprays of the palms, while the clouds
in the " Jacob's Dream" are the ordinary rotundities of the studio. 27. ..."
4. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... etc., the inversions and high-sounding rotundities, familiar to his predecessors:
all the rhetorical excesses through which most Victorian poetry now ..."
5. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... for sooths, etc., the inversions and high-sounding rotundities, familiar to
his predecessors: all the rhetorical excesses through which most Victorian ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"One peers curiously at the dim suggestion of vast rotundities that stretch,
immeasurable, into darkness. ..."
7. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... he experimented upon those lay-figures whose plastic rotundities exhibited
hie artful taste in the arrangement of draperies and colour ; but in these ..."
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