abruptness
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Abruptness greatly assists the picturesque: the Rhine loses half its beauty viewed from a steam-boat.
From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick
With respect both to articulation and expression the generic properties of the voice are five, namely: Quality, Pitch, Force, Time, Abruptness.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Abruptness and hard combinations of sounds are avoided.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
Abruptness, inadequacy, and obscurity of expression were light matters, and gave him little concern, compared with the haunting fear of unreal words.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
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