Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being sudden, in any sense; a coming or happening without previous notice.
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- noun The state of being
sudden .
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- noun the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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Examples
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
American Girl 2009
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
American Girl 2009
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“Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness,” he wrote in these pages in 1897, “that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
Are We White? 2009
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“Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness,” he wrote in these pages in 1897, “that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
Are We White? 2009
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
American Girl 2009
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
American Girl 2009
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
American Girl 2009
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
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"It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil."
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