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Definition of Indirectnesses
1. indirectness [n] - See also: indirectness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indirectnesses
Literary usage of Indirectnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Theological Studies (1903)
"But I think we should consider that the phraseology of L, with its Hebraisms,
its parallelism, and its indirectnesses, is the more likely to be correct in ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... indirectnesses, beatings about the bush. From you I shall not meet with . .
. the depreciating ..."
3. Selections from the Literature of Theism by Alfred Caldecott, Hugh Ross Mackintosh (1904)
"The trivialities, the blemishes, and the indirectnesses which abound in Nature
made them feel an objection to bringing the Divine Being into direct contact ..."
4. English Style in Public Discourse with Special Reference to the Usages of by Austin Phelps (1883)
"A juvenile discourse is often of similar character, filled here and there with
irrelevances, indirectnesses, objectless paragraphs, ..."
5. The German Soul in Its Attitude Towards Ethics and Christianity, the State by Friedrich Hügel (1916)
"... the several levels and ranges of our human life even here, although it can do
this only by various mitigations, compounds, indirectnesses, compromises. ..."
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