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- noun Plural form of
ponderosity .
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Examples
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His fluent, easy-going style, free of fustian, thickets, ponderosities, is indebted to Thomson's as well as to Thomson's personal tutoring.
On the 'Virge' Craft, Robert 1997
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Here are alluring condiments to tempt the most fastidious taste, vinous acidities to lubricate, and gastronomic ponderosities to titilate the palate!
Out of the Woods 1934
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Farther on, where the river narrows again, a flutter-headed rabbit crossing at top speed has made a line seemingly as free from frivolous indirection as if it had been defined by all the ponderosities of mathematics.
Winter Mist 1921
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Consider the solemn ponderosities of the pious old maids, male and female, who write book reviews for the newspapers.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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He fell back on Blue Books, and other ponderosities -- Barton by this time silent, or playing a clumsy chorus.
The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885
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There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
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There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879
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There were possibilities of dulness, ponderosities of practice, arid social sands, the bad quarters-of-an-hour that turned up like false pieces in a debased currency, of which she made, on principle, very nearly as light as if she had not been clever enough to distinguish.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
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