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Definition of Tediousnesses
1. tediousness [n] - See also: tediousness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tediousnesses
Literary usage of Tediousnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"No poem of his attains quite the first rank as a lyric ; and in every poem of
his not a lyric there are more or fewer blemishes, tediousnesses, inequalities ..."
2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"... could suffer it to be exposed, a stranger's care may suffer it to be neglected.
For how shall a hireling endure the inconveniences, the tediousnesses, ..."
3. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1895)
"... blemishes, tediousnesses, inequalities. Yet there is a singular variety in
him and each of the lines which makes up the variety has a remarkable charm. ..."
4. Dramatists of To-day: Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips by Edward Everett Hale (1911)
"Everybody knows the glow of joy with which they receive money they did not really
expect; many people know the irritations and tediousnesses that often come ..."
5. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1853)
"... above all other tediousnesses. In the country especially, when this happiness
is often prolonged to a pitch of dismal excitement, by the non-arrival of ..."
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