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Definition of Shortnesses
1. shortness [n] - See also: shortness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortnesses
Literary usage of Shortnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American History Told by Contemporaries by Albert Bushnell Hart (1901)
"Certainly — into shortnesses. Well, what are the mechanical laws of the hammer?
Gov. The time wastes fast ; pass on to another science. ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1888)
"And he attached to them lengths and shortnesses. Does this mean, he literally
added on anything or merely assigned the qualities or marks of length and ..."
3. The Principles of Argumentation by George Pierce Baker (1895)
"... there must often be great obscurity and shortnesses which, I, who have my
thoughts filled with the things themselves, am not aware of. ..."
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