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Definition of Dottiness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dottiness
Literary usage of Dottiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genius Loci: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (1908)
"... THE LION OF ST MARK'S AND ADMIRAL MOROSINI T HAD been suffering, this time at
Venice, from a sense of spot-and-dottiness (as of a bric-a-brac shop ..."
2. War's Brighter Side: The Story of "The Friend" Newspaper Edited by the by Julian Ralph (1901)
"... then to a third, which was also " dotty," until, feeble and bewildered, I
helplessly wandered about on the verge of an incurable " dottiness " myself. ..."
3. The Book of Old-fashioned Flowers and Other Plants which Thrive in the Open by Harry Roberts (1901)
"... and keep the surface mulched either with moss or manure, or with loose soil.
7. In arranging mixed borders, avoid dottiness, preferring rather ..."
4. Instruction in the Grades, Values and Methods: A Text-book for Normal by Oscar Gerson (1914)
"The black dot must needs lose some of its "dottiness" when it suggests a prosperous
port with its shipping and active industrial life. ..."
5. Lyric Forms from France: Their History and Their Use by Helen Louise Cohen (1922)
"... BALLADE OF dottiness A cow, delighted, blew her horn, The pines stopped pining
and were gay, The weeping willows ceased to mourn, A donkey, thrilled, ..."
6. Ship-building in Iron and Wood by Andrew Murray, Robert Murray, Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze (1863)
"... probably dottiness, which is a spotted or speckled appearance, like small
stains in the wood, is most commonly a disease of beech timber; it is, ..."
7. Gemius Loci: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (1907)
"... from a sense of spot-and-dottiness (as of a bric-i-brac shop for tourists),
and from the absence of what one asks of every historical city, ..."
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