Lexicographical Neighbors of Commonnesses
Literary usage of Commonnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Individual and Society: Or, Psychology and Sociology by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"It is through these psychological processes that the great communities or mental
commonnesses arise — common thought, common morals, common religion. ..."
2. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1911)
"... with its renewal in recognition, which pursues its own functional logic—having
its coefficients, conversions, testing processes, commonnesses, etc., ..."
3. Anima Poetæ from the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"commonnesses, which are infinitely greater. So I doubt the wisdom of the treatment
of sailors and criminals, because it is wholly grounded on their vices, ..."
4. Moral Uses of Dark Things by Horace Bushnell (1881)
"... commonnesses help, as terms of contrast, to garnish any larger whole. They only
whet our appetite for something better by starving us in what they are. ..."
5. Studies in the Evolution of English Criticism by Laura Johnson Wylie (1894)
"of occasional commonnesses.1 But these sins of narrowness hardly affect the real
exquisiteness of his taste, and its liberality shows itself in ..."
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