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Definition of Bossiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bossiness
Literary usage of Bossiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"That sculpture is essentially the production of a pleasant bossiness or roundness
of surface ; (2) that the pleasantness of that bossy condition to the eye ..."
2. The Nervous housewife by Abraham Myerson (1920)
"... bossiness, and rebellion against it, petty jealousies and stubbornness, —
these are the basic elements in discord. Children quarrel about trifles, ..."
3. Fine Arts and Their Uses: Essays by William Bellars (1876)
"In one of his later works,* Mr Ruskin insists that Sculpture itself "is essentially
the production of a pleasant bossiness, or roundness of surface,"—which ..."
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