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Definition of Plainnesses
1. plainness [n] - See also: plainness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plainnesses
Literary usage of Plainnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... of Society which excludes now from our common acquaintance certain plainnesses
of thought and speech once honestly meant, and honestly allowed. ..."
2. The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1847)
"Certain plainnesses, or homely traits, in these characters—safe in their historic
renown, and so raised above the danger of becoming contemptible from close ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Courts of Law in the by Elihu Hall Bay (1809)
"CASE on a note of hand. Duress pleaded. The wit- Where plainnesses proved, that
some time previous ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... of Society which excludes now from our common acquaintance certain plainnesses
of thought and speech once honestly meant, and honestly allowed. ..."
5. The Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1847)
"Certain plainnesses, or homely traits, in these characters—safe in their historic
renown, and so raised above the danger of becoming contemptible from close ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Courts of Law in the by Elihu Hall Bay (1809)
"CASE on a note of hand. Duress pleaded. The wit- Where plainnesses proved, that
some time previous ..."
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