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Definition of Slipperinesses
1. slipperiness [n] - See also: slipperiness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipperinesses
Literary usage of Slipperinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne (1910)
"... nothing is old, nor new to mine; and as to that life, all stickings and
hesitations seem stupid and stony, so to this, all fluid slipperinesses, ..."
2. A Compendious Hebrew Lexicon, Adapted to the English Language, and Composed by Samuel Pike (1811)
"... slipperinesses, Psal. xxxv. 6. flatteries, Dan. xi. 21, 34. slippery ways, Jer.
xxiii. 1 2. ?n to weaken, discomfit, Exod. xvii. 13. Isai. xiv. ..."
3. Commentary on the Psalms by Heinrich Ewald, Edwin Johnson (1881)
"... that assigned to them by the Divine allotment. This is indicated as briefly
as possible at the end of the strophe, ver. 18 : only in slipperinesses Thou ..."
4. The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical by John Ruskin, William Burgess (1907)
"... in speech for breathing time, and slipperinesses in speech for hiding time,—to
polish malice to the deadliest edge, ..."
5. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1906)
"... in speech for breathing time, and slipperinesses in speech for hiding time,—to
polish .malice to the deadliest edge, shape profession to the ..."
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