criticalness

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“We have one play to make a difference, and they have to understand the significance and the criticalness of that particular play. And I think if we can get that across, we’ll play better.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2022

Pig," wrote the gentle essayist Charles Lamb, in phrases ardent as a lover's whisper, "is no less provocative of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He twanged the strings just over her head, to keep her from hearing, but quite out of tune, he was so agitated with the criticalness of the moment.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

He was conducted to a chamber, and, the criticalness of his case requiring unusual attention, I spent the night at his bedside.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

I was glad to escape from the uneasiness of my reflections; and, while engaged with this new friend, I forgot the criticalness of the evils with which I was hourly menaced.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William