Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being thus.
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Examples
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The latest tests ruled out an autoimmune disorder as the reason for this thusness.
Shoes—and ships—and sealing wax— superversive 2007
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Alternative names for these four are external offerings, internal offerings, secret or hidden offerings, and thusness offerings.
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An offering of the very nature of reality (de-kho-na-nyid mchod-pa, thusness offering) is of the nonconceptual cognition of voidness.
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And, as you remark, if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness. —
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“Excellent, made me laugh awfully — but why all this thusness?”
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‘Not a sight of him,’ replied Barty; ‘but, I say, why all this thusness?’
Madame Midas 2003
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"To quote our ancestors -- 'Why this thusness?'" asked the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 Various
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We might as well go and find out the meaning of this thusness.
Jane Allen: Right Guard Edith Bancroft
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And, as you remark, if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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-- And, as you remark, if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
hernesheir commented on the word thusness
"Why is this? What is the reason of this thusness?"
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) Charles Ward's Lecture
September 27, 2009
bilby commented on the word thusness
Not happy with these thusnesses.
September 27, 2009