Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being limpid; clearness; transparency; lucidity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being limpid; limpidity.
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- noun The property of being
limpid ,clarity .
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Examples
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Some approach definitions; some are like free-floating haikus; some are, for all their word-by-word limpidness, impenetrable.
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A later work with that same limpidness is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem.
The 10 best classical tear-jerkers Fiona Maddocks 2010
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A crystal-clear limpidness without a break in continuity – that is the essential nature (of the mind).
Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Three: Vipashyana Meditation the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug-dorjey 2008
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We cherish sensations in themselves, when they consist of elements like limpidness of color and lucidity of sound.
Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
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Now the wind has blown it clear as blue limpidness; now scattered flakes appear; now it is deep blue; now pale; now it tinges darkly; now it is a layer of cream.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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His page has the fertility of a well-cultivated pastoral region, the limpidness of a mountain brook, the music of our unstudied songsters, the elusive charm of the blue beyond the summer clouds; it has, at times, the ruggedness of a shelving rock, combined with the grace of its nodding columbines.
Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914
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Two or three phrases, however, show all the limpidness and ease for which he gained fame subsequently.
A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876
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Two or three phrases, however, show all the limpidness and ease for which he gained fame subsequently.
A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874
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This one had: she had the secret of lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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This one had: she had the secret of lake waters under rock, unfathomable in limpidness.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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