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hard-handedness

hard-handedness is the alternative form of hardhandedness.

Meaning of hardhandedness

Noun

hardhandedness (uncountable)

  1. Harshness, strictness.
    • Well-to-do citizens, both Reformed and Catholic, also backed down and withdrew their demands, forming a united front to suppress the revolt in the cities, either through hardhandedness or appeasement.2004, Albert Blankert, Selected writings on Dutch painting: Rembrandt, Van Beke, Vermeer, and Others, page 45
  2. The embodiment of working-class virtue; hard-working practicality.
    • Coming in among us by hundreds and thousands, as they now are and for years have been, their gentler and fiercer passions, like meadow rivulets and mountain torrents, mixing in with and modifying our own, and their art, science and literature, their hardhandedness and willingheartedness, and their...1850, William Davis Gallagher, Facts and Conditions of Progress in the North-west, page 28

Questions about hard-handedness

What is hard-handedness the alternative form of?
Hard-handedness is the alternative form of hardhandedness.

Words near hard-handedness in the dictionary

  1. hard-fought
  2. hard-g
  3. hard-grained
  4. hard-handed
  5. hard-handedly
  6. hard-handedness
  7. hard-headed
  8. hard-hearted
  9. hard-heartedly
  10. hard-heartedness
  11. hard-heartednesses

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