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Definition of Sweepingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweepingness
Literary usage of Sweepingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Not less extraordinary is the freedom and sweepingness of his criticism of the
financial plans of Hamilton,—certainly the ablest financier ever in charge of ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"Not less extraordinary is the freedom and sweepingness of his criticism of the
financial plans of Hamilton,—certainly the ablest financier ever in charge of ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... the sweepingness of the assumption completes the flowing breadth of the effect",
he goes very near to talking nonsense. For most people, however, ..."
4. The English Review (1850)
"... where they seem to think it necessary to be weak and foolish. Of course this
dictum is to be taken with a due degree of allowance for its sweepingness. ..."
5. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1890)
"But when he goes on to say that " the sweepingness of the assumption completes
the flowing breadth of the effect," he goes very near to talking nonsense. ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Not less extraordinary is the freedom and sweepingness of his criticism of the
financial plans of Hamilton,—certainly the ablest financier ever in charge of ..."
7. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"Not less extraordinary is the freedom and sweepingness of his criticism of the
financial plans of Hamilton,—certainly the ablest financier ever in charge of ..."
8. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... the sweepingness of the assumption completes the flowing breadth of the effect",
he goes very near to talking nonsense. For most people, however, ..."
9. The English Review (1850)
"... where they seem to think it necessary to be weak and foolish. Of course this
dictum is to be taken with a due degree of allowance for its sweepingness. ..."
10. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1890)
"But when he goes on to say that " the sweepingness of the assumption completes
the flowing breadth of the effect," he goes very near to talking nonsense. ..."
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