Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernnesses
Literary usage of Modernnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genius Loci: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (1908)
"Crude modernnesses disappeared; the nave was filled with deeper and deeper gloom;
and a white altar, for instance, lit by invisible lights from the side, ..."
2. The Spirit of Rome: Leaves from a Diary by Vernon Lee (1906)
"... behind those walls of Rome, are all of us, bringing our absurd modernnesses,
our far-fetched things of civilisation into the solemn, starved, lousy, ..."
3. Baldwin: Being Dialogues on Views and Aspirations by Vernon Lee (1886)
"The obvious retort was that, not being so old as Sir Anthony, he could not be an
idealist; for, to Carlo's mind, saturated with cosmopolitan modernnesses, ..."
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