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Definition of Ambidextrousness

1. Noun. The property of being equally skillful with each hand.

Definition of Ambidextrousness

1. n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity.

Definition of Ambidextrousness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being ambidextrous. ¹

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Literary usage of Ambidextrousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... then taken to steel nibs, and sometimes used a gold pen.. . . His ambidextrousness abided with him to the end: he shaved himself with great facility, ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Having the use of either band ; double dealing ambidextrousness, (am-be-dex'-trus- nes) n. ». The quality of being ambidextrous. AMBIENT, (ara'-be-ent) a. ..."

3. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"The quality of being able equally to ufe both hands ; double dealing. ambidextrousness, am-by-- ..."

4. Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop by Daniel Sylvester Tuttle (1906)
"Yet a kind of ambidextrousness, gotten by these talks on Sunday afternoons in Morris, has alway stood me in good stead. One sermon per week thoughtfully ..."

5. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1905)
"It is in a little book entitled " Falling in Love, and Other Essays on the More Exact Sciences." The subject of ambidextrousness interests us, ..."

6. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... bow or the bridle in the rig/it hand, the change must have been due to the carelessness of the die-sinker, and not the ambidextrousness of the kings. ..."

7. Ambidexterity, or, Two-handedness and two-brainedness: Or, Two-handedness by John Jackson (1905)
"It seems to me probable that many such cases, as in the left-hand slingers of the tribe of Benjamin, are merely cases of ambidextrousness, where the habit ..."

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