Lexicographical Neighbors of Placidities
Literary usage of Placidities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)
"... she bent tenderly, in imagination, over marital, paternal Mr. Whatever-he-was,
at home, eternally named, with all the honours and placidities, ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"The sky, looking down in deep blue placidities, only here and there smote the
water to azure emulations of its tint.—" In the ' Stranger People's' Country ..."
3. The Bookman (1911)
"This cheerful tendency is stronger just now than it ever was, flanked on the one
side by the placidities of the "New Thought" and on the other side bv the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"... exasperates our everyday toils and sufferings with platitudes and placidities,
coaxes our superficial sympathies, appeals to our feelings—as if men had ..."
5. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 by Myra Reynolds (1920)
"The actual accomplishment of the period before 1760 was a destruction of old
placidities, a restlessness of discussion, rather than a movement reaching ..."
6. The Three Religious Leaders of Oxford and Their Movements: John Wycliffe by Samuel Parkes Cadman (1916)
"Nor were they poetry of the inevitable kind: they lacked the highest play of
passion or pity, and their placidities were far removed from "the Dantean flame ..."
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