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Definition of Sordidnesses
1. sordidness [n] - See also: sordidness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sordidnesses
Literary usage of Sordidnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wandering Years by Katharine Tynan (1922)
"Even to one who had known those terrible sordidnesses, drabness, petty hatreds
and general wretchedness, she stands as a mother, ..."
2. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1901)
"the tempestuous panorama or phantasmagoria of Saint-Simon, the horrors and alarms
of the Revolution memoirs, the mingled glories and sordidnesses, ..."
3. Carlyle and the War by Marshall Kelly (1915)
"... he might be quite pleased to be rid of these observances. What sordidnesses
are here! And who are they that make war to perpetuate them? ..."
4. The Revelation of God in Christ and Other Sermons: Preached at St. John's by William Tatlock, D. D. (1897)
"... but when he got among the sordidnesses of the lower life, then the higher and
better part in him remembered the higher sort of life in which he had been ..."
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