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- noun Plural form of
plainness .
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Examples
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Just as she avoided the name of Tomkins, so she avoided the roughnesses, the asperities, the plainnesses of daily life.
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In many plainnesses of speech the old Egyptian resembled the modern
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty 1897
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But on the other hand, these equalitarian plainnesses leave an open field for the insolence of Jack-in-office.
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