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Definition of Abstrusities
1. abstrusity [n] - See also: abstrusity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstrusities
Literary usage of Abstrusities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1850)
"... offer the abstrusities of metaphysics to plain men and women, instead of the
Law and the Gospel. Nor will science ever work out a religion for our race. ..."
2. An Alphabet in Finance: A Simple Statement of Permanent Principles and Their by Graham McAdam (1876)
"In itself it is a very simple affair, and since its abstrusities have been woven
into many of the theories about specie resumption, with the result (if not ..."
3. The deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1841)
"... could not penetrate abstrusities, or trace the nice affinities between cause
and effect, beyond their more obvious and indisputable connection, ..."
4. The Praise of Folly: By Desiderius Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus (1887)
"... and such like abstrusities, as one would think no one could pry into, except
he had not only such cat's eyes as to see best in the dark, but even such a ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"For twelve years he has earned a living as a farm hand, studying deeply meanwhile
Hegel's abstrusities. Physically he is a giant, in the prime of life, ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"Tall, spare—almost emaciated—with the rounded shoulders and feeble health of the
scholar, fond of discussing philological abstrusities by the hour, ..."
7. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... than good in Holy Scripture, and why ? he may meet with abstrusities of no
ready resolution. If any shall question the rationality of that magic, ..."
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