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Definition of Tumidities
1. tumidity [n] - See also: tumidity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumidities
Literary usage of Tumidities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1852)
"... who apply it to those undefined tumidities or bumps which appear on the inner
surface and hinge of some bivalve shells, and to the thickening over the ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... the highest qualities of Correggio and Titian with the brilliancy and luxuriance
of the Dutch and the Flemish schools, deprived of their tumidities. ..."
3. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"... poor Greene into an enraged wasp, peevish and mortified at the Shakespearian
hand which had often larded his leanness, or scarified his tumidities. ..."
4. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (1864)
"... poor Greene into an enraged wasp, peevish and mortified at the Shakespearian
hand which had often larded his leanness, or scarified his tumidities. ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"From the slow dropping chat of the provoking button-holder, to the prolonged and
rotund tumidities of the stump ..."
6. Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1842)
"... poor Greene into an enraged wasp, peevish and mortified at the Shakespearian
hand, which had often larded his leanness, or scarified his tumidities. ..."
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