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Definition of Mediocrities
1. mediocrity [n] - See also: mediocrity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mediocrities
Literary usage of Mediocrities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections, 1832 to 1886 by Algernon West (1900)
"... Hudson— Eton in: Distinguished Contemporaries — House Party at Lord Henley's
in—Successful mediocrities—Wilberforce at Eton —Flight of Louis Philippe. ..."
2. The Men of the Merchant Service: Being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine by Frank Thomas Bullen (1900)
"Between these two extremes of swiftness and slowness come all the host of
mediocrities, making passages of average length, speedy enough to prevent owners ..."
3. Life of Gustave Doré by Blanchard Jerrold (1891)
"time he appeared at the Salon with the observations of academic mediocrities who
had mastered the mechanism of their art, but had none of the life, ..."
4. Musical Memories: My Recollections of Celebrities of the Half Century, 1850-1900 by George Putnam Upton (1908)
"... FIRST GERMAN TROUPE — GRAU'S TROUPE OF mediocrities ON Monday, July 29, 1850,
there was great excitement among the thirty thousand people of Chicago, ..."
5. Modern Germany: Her Political and Economic Problems, Her Foreign and by J. Ellis Barker (1907)
"After all a teacher cannot teach more than he knows, and teachers, being usually
mediocrities, turn out mediocrities. Art, industry, and science flourished ..."
6. The Musical World (1865)
"What is worse, too, is that each of these mediocrities fancies herself a ...
This is a kind dispensation of Providence as far as the mediocrities themselves ..."
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