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Definition of Abstrusenesses
1. abstruseness [n] - See also: abstruseness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstrusenesses
Literary usage of Abstrusenesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1866)
"Not only has he aspired to treat learnedly the entire American policy, but,
freshly nibbling his pen, he plunges deep into the abstrusenesses of British ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"... but lest you should take it in too high a key, and put into it the metaphysics
and abstrusenesses in which you are so eminently at home. ..."
3. The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare Plays by Ignatius Donnelly (1887)
"... to give pleasure or pain to the meanest, is the essential spirit of the Baconian
philosophy.3 Bacon cared nothing for the grand abstrusenesses: he ..."
4. The Baptist Magazine by Baptist Missionary Society (1841)
"His youthful mind, disciplined to close and accurate thinking, plunged at once
into all the difficulties and abstrusenesses of metaphysics. ..."
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