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sordidnesses

sordidnesses is the plural of sordidness.

Meaning of sordidness

Noun

sordidness (countable and uncountable, plural sordidnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being sordid.
    • [W]e muſt not take this mercifull indulgence given to our defectuoſities, as a diſpenſation for the ſordidnes of our loves, but rather in a holy effect and contention of gratitude, ſtrain to love God the more purely, and irreſpectively to our ſelves, in regard of the tranſcendent benignity of this...1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. II. Mercenary Love Defined, and the Relying Much on It Disswaded.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia...
  2. (countable) The product or result of being sordid.
    • His was a nature—weak I own—that felt a sordidness in narrow means and their attendants; the ugliness of poverty pained his spirit.1864, Katherine F. Williams, “The Rev. Mr. Allonby”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XXVIII

Questions about sordidnesses

What is sordidnesses the plural of?
Sordidnesses is the plural of sordidness.

Words near sordidnesses in the dictionary

  1. sordidest
  2. sordidities
  3. sordidity
  4. sordidly
  5. sordidness
  6. sordidnesses
  7. sordine
  8. sordines
  9. sordini
  10. sordino
  11. sordinos

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