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- noun The state or condition of being
armless ; lack ofarms .
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Examples
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Headlessness, armlessness and dismemberment →
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Headlessness, armlessness and dismemberment « Jahsonic
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These just happen to be the people in her sweetie's peer group, and after all, they are pretty punk-rock looking, what with the armlessness and all.
The real Diane Arbus and "Fur" Kay Olson 2006
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These just happen to be the people in her sweetie's peer group, and after all, they are pretty punk-rock looking, what with the armlessness and all.
Archive 2006-11-01 Kay Olson 2006
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He most likely guessed directly that it was a discarded lover he had to deal with, but from sympathy for me, and also a profound sense of my absolute armlessness, he treated me with extraordinary gentleness.
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If he learns to use his "disability" Tessa said to call it "armlessness" – in a special way, he could really be an interesting kind of point guard down in the paint.
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If he learns to use his "disability" Tessa said to call it "armlessness" – in a special way, he could really be an interesting kind of point guard down in the paint.
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He most likely guessed directly that it was a discarded lover he had to deal with, but from sympathy for me, and also a profound sense of my absolute armlessness, he treated me with extraordinary gentleness.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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At one point von Glasow asks one of his female subjects, Doris Pakendorf, whether she's ever had a relationship with a man who found her armlessness "pretty."
Chicago Reader 2010
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Questioned about the armlessness of Christ in his Crucifixion 9 (1987, now in the Tate), Aitchison remarked, "Everybody knows who He is.
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