Definitions

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  • noun The state or quality of being plodding.

Etymologies

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From plodding +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • It was in the day's work, and my kind have always been day-workers, doing the day's work, whatever it might be, in high adventure or dull ploddingness, and always doing it.

    CHAPTER XLVI 2010

  • It was in the day's work, and my kind have always been day-workers, doing the day's work, whatever it might be, in high adventure or dull ploddingness, and always doing it.

    Chapter 46 1914

  • It was in the day's work, and my kind have always been day - workers, doing the day's work, whatever it might be, in high adventure or dull ploddingness, and always doing it.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

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