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Definition of Soddenness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soddenness
Literary usage of Soddenness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They are also largely used ground for stock food, but for this purpose the meal
is generally mixed with other meal to lessen its soddenness. ..."
2. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... turning himself about with the slow gravity of beery soddenness, Deputy makes
a pretty wide circuit into the road and stands on the defensive. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1869)
"... hers being the commonest type of Irish faces, flat, broad, round as an
apple-dumpling, with a complexion of the dumpling hue and soddenness. ..."
4. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"Merely, therefore, hinting at the deferred dinner, and the consequent soddenness
of boiled, and aridity of roast, she affectionately inquired if anything of ..."
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