Definition of Straitnesses

1. straitness [n] - See also: straitness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Straitnesses

straitened times
straitening
straitens
straiter
straitest
straiting
straitjacket
straitjacketed
straitjacketing
straitjackets
straitlaced
straitlacedly
straitlacedness
straitly
straitness
straitnesses (current term)
straits
straitwaistcoat
straitwaistcoated
straitwaistcoats
strake
straked
strakes
strakhovite
stramash
stramashes
stramazoun
stramazouns
stramenopile
stramenopiles

Literary usage of Straitnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XLVIII Of the day of eternity and of the straitnesses of this life OH most blessed mansion of the City which is above! Oh most clear day of eternity ..."

2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"... day of eternity and of the straitnesses of th1s life OH most blessed mansion of the City which is above! Oh most clear day of eternity which the night ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XLVIII Of the day of eternity and of the straitnesses of this life OH most blessed mansion of the City which is above! Oh most clear day of eternity ..."

4. Of the Imitation of Christ: Four Books by Frederic William Farrar (1903)
"OF THE DAY OF ETERNITY, AND THIS LIFE'S straitnesses. ... The days of this life are few and evil,2 full of sorrows and straitnesses. ..."

5. Of the imitation of Christ, four books, by Thomas a Kempis by Thomas (1879)
"The days of this life are short and evil,2 full of sorrow and straitnesses. Here a man is defiled with many sins, ensnared with 1 Rev. xxi. [2.] ''! ..."

6. Of the imitation of Christ, four books, by Thomas a Kempis by Thomas (1868)
"... life are short and evil,2 full of sorrow and straitnesses. Here a man is denied with many sins, ensnared with 1 Rev. xxi. [al 2 Job vii. many passions, ..."

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