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Definition of Hominess
1. the quality of being homey [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hominess
Literary usage of Hominess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mailbag (1918)
"If "hominess," for instance, says more than any phrase in all the world of words
at my command, why "hominess" goes with me. ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"... who stop within its doors are nil. du, upon entering the spacious lobby that
atmosph. hominess. of genuine welcome that has made the Imperial grow. ..."
3. Catalogue by Syracuse University, St. Louis, Public school library (1913)
"... story has been told with a degree of sympathy and detail, not to say "hominess",
that makes It a truly worthy and agreeable bit of missionary biography. ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"So far as I can see, he epitomized in his verses this sweet, simple hominess that
tugs at the heart-strings like some old call that one has heard before. ..."
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