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Definition of Doubleness
1. n. The state of being double or doubled.
Definition of Doubleness
1. Noun. The state of being double or doubled. ¹
2. Noun. Duplicity; insincerity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Doubleness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Doubleness
Literary usage of Doubleness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of by Lionel Strachey (1912)
"Ballad of Women's doubleness THIS world is full ... But, for all that, yet as I
read, Beware alway of doubleness. Also that the fresh summer flowers, ..."
2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"... shape which it now assumes, we easily discern a doubleness in it. There is on
the one side the attack made by legislation upon Popery, ..."
3. The Annals of the English Bible by Christopher Anderson (1845)
"Wherefore we require you, upon his repair to you, studiously to examine him, by
whom yc shall perceive doubleness in the oilier, in him, or both ; the which ..."
4. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"The preceding account has been almost confined to the phenomena of vision with
a single eye ; it remains to be explained how the doubleness of the organ ..."
5. Philosophical Remains of George Croom Robertson: With a Memoir by George Croom Robertson (1894)
"... SENSE OF doubleness WITH CROSSED FINGERS.i THE familiar psychological experiment
known to every schoolboy, and noted already by Aristotle in the ..."
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