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
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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
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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
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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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