Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lack of solidity; weakness: as, the insolidity of a wall.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Lack of solidity; weakness.
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- noun Lack of
solidity ;weakness .
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Examples
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But this, too, is so done from the heart outwards, done with such inward firmness and such natural temperance, that there is seldom any thing of hollowness or insolidity in the result.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
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They saw it insolidity; themselves as restless billows, driven dashing to the despondent sigh.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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They saw it insolidity; themselves as restless billows, driven dashing to the despondent sigh.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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They saw it insolidity; themselves as restless billows, driven dashing to the despondent sigh.
One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868
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But this, too, is so done from the heart outwards, done with such inward firmness and such natural temperance, that there is seldom any thing of hollowness or insolidity in the result.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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Yet every now and then we can actually get a ‘feel’ for the distances and times involved … and glimpsing that fact of eternity becomes REAL SCARY if you truly get a solid grip on that insolidity, that abject Nothingness of God’s Brain …
The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983
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Yet every now and then we can actually get a ‘feel’ for the distances and times involved … and glimpsing that fact of eternity becomes REAL SCARY if you truly get a solid grip on that insolidity, that abject Nothingness of God’s Brain …
The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983
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Yet every now and then we can actually get a ‘feel’ for the distances and times involved … and glimpsing that fact of eternity becomes REAL SCARY if you truly get a solid grip on that insolidity, that abject Nothingness of God’s Brain …
The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983
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