Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dexterity; adroitness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
dexterous .
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Examples
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A swift turning back of his prisoner's coat pinioned him, and then with dexterousness and in silence he proceeded to search.
The Daffodil Mystery Edgar Wallace 1903
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René set to work on his side, with his usual dexterousness.
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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If machinery is brought almost to the perfection of manual dexterousness, human beings attain the precision of machinery.
East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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Miss Craydocke thought of the darns; her story cannot be told here; but she knew what it meant to have the darns of life fall to one's share, -- to have the filling up to do, with dexterousness and pains and sacrifice, of holes that other people make!
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