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Definition of Sereness
1. Noun. A withered dryness.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sereness
Literary usage of Sereness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau by Marco Girolamo Vida, Albert Stanburrough Cook, Horace, Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (1892)
"... drought to the heart of the year, hushed the wild war- blings, and diffused
a uniform soberness and sereness over meadow and woodland. ..."
2. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets: Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb (1854)
"... thought Still creepeth to the rude-embracing might Of princes' grace: a lease
of glories let, "Which shining burns ; breeds sereness when 'tis set. ..."
3. The American Monthly Magazine (1837)
"calamities, acting upon a haughty spirit, should have occasioned that sereness
of heart and frigidity of demeanour which ever afterwards characterized Isaac ..."
4. The Ladies' Wreath by Sarah Towne Martyn, Helen Irving (1850)
"In early autumn, when the first shadows of coming winter fell on the forests,
and the gaudy green began to change to the sereness of age, we encamped on the ..."
5. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare by Charles Lamb, Israel Gollancz (1893)
"... thought Still creepeth to the rude-embracing might Of princes' grace : a lease
of glories let, Which shining burns ; breeds sereness when 'tis set. ..."
6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1851)
"Lime—golden lime ! What though thy parting leaves, the wailing winds are calling !
What though to sereness all hath changed Why should we mourn that fast ..."
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