Definition of Grimnesses

1. grimness [n] - See also: grimness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimnesses

grimed
grimes
grimier
grimiest
grimily
griminess
griminesses
griming
grimlier
grimliest
grimly
grimme
grimmer
grimmest
grimness
grimnesses (current term)
grimoire
grimoires
grimselite
grimsir
grimsirs
grimy
grin
grin and bear it
grin like a Cheshire cat
grinch
grinches
grind
grind away
grind down

Literary usage of Grimnesses

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

1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"of light and air and view, with the effusions and vociferations and grimnesses round him, the sights and sounds of the quasi-barbaric life that have the ..."

2. The Challenge of Facts: And Other Essays by William Graham Sumner (1914)
"... had not grappled with the grimnesses of thought, could thus, apparently without conscious effort, have compelled our intellectual homage. ..."

3. Notes on Novelists: With Some Other Notes by Henry James (1914)
"... in all the beauty of light and air and view, with the effusions and vociferations and grimnesses round him, the sights and sounds of the quasi-barbaric ..."

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