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Definition of Sharpnesses
1. sharpness [n] - See also: sharpness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharpnesses
Literary usage of Sharpnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"... to have discover'd some things to their prejudice, did so exasperate not only
the Commons but all the Nation, that much of these sharpnesses against the ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"They only can be confident that their desires are right, who feel sharpnesses
and zeal in their acts of love. For in spiritual things every abatement is by ..."
3. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1919)
"In FlR 5, the eight lower diagrams show tbe max permissible sharpnesses for ...
the sharpnesses required by Mr. AM Wellington's proposed rule (Ky Location, ..."
4. A Memoir of Robert C. Winthrop by Robert Charles Winthrop (1897)
"In reproducing at this late day a few of the " sharpnesses and severities" above
alluded to, I do so with no disposition to revive unpleasant memories, ..."
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