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  • noun Plural form of crispness.

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  • Here, if there were nobody who reverenced the volume which begins with _Genesis_ and ends with _Revelation_, the whole thing would be utterly dead and stupid: except for a few crispnesses of the Egyptian Mambrès, which could, almost without a single exception, have been uttered on any other theme.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

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