Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stupidity; dullness: as, “incurable blockishness,”
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- noun The state or quality of being
blockish .
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Examples
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Master Antitus of Cressplots was licentiated, and had passed his degrees in all dullery and blockishness, according to this sentence of the canonists, Beati Dunces, quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Master Antitus of Cressplots was licentiated, and had passed his degrees in all dullery and blockishness, according to this sentence of the canonists, Beati Dunces, quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The two slaves were ready at repartee, but the utter simplicity of the sultan displayed a blockishness which blunted all edge.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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This was done at his return from the little paltry town, even then when Master Antitus of Cressplots was licentiated, and had passed his degrees in all dullery and blockishness, according to this sentence of the canonists, Beati Dunces, quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Then the more 'tis to be feared, said Pantagruel; for subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety, and only gains that of blockishness.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Weel, happy be, ye peacefu 'pack ye r Happy as blockishness can mak' ye,
Poetical attempts Hugh Porter 1813
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Then the more ’tis to be feared, said Pantagruel; for subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety, and only gains that of blockishness.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then the more ’tis to be feared, said Pantagruel; for subtlety suspected, subtlety foreseen, subtlety found out, loses the essence and very name of subtlety, and only gains that of blockishness.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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