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- noun Plural form of
insubstantiality .
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Examples
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Deep and definite the shadows, offspring of lordly light and steadfast leaves — not mere insubstantialities, but stars deep sculptured in the grey rock.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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Furthermore, people will soon begin to see through the insubstantialities of your clever but childish polemics.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Furthermore, people will soon begin to see through the insubstantialities of your clever but childish polemics.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Before the prince could reply there occurred a phenomenon that sent all thought of such insubstantialities as the secrets of the Fourth
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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There would always be a sufficient proportion of unborn fools left who would prefer the palpabilities of bodily form to the insubstantialities of pre-natal existence.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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Deep and definite the shadows, offspring of lordly light and steadfast leaves -- not mere insubstantialities, but stars deep sculptured in the grey rock.
My Tropic Isle 1887
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And I wondered again, as I often have, how insubstantialities like guts can worry men so much more intelligent than I. "
Don Quixote at Eighty Leonard, John 2003
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I will not surrender these prospects to insubstantialities and personal fears. "
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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I will not surrender these prospects to insubstantialities and personal fears. "
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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I will not surrender these prospects to insubstantialities and personal fears. "
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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