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forwardness

[fawr-werd-nis] / ˈfɔr wərd nɪs /


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Forwardness A voice that is pitched back in the throat is dark, sombre, and unattractive.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

Forwardness, or a disposition to be conspicuous, is unseemly, especially in a young person.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey

Forwardness is the soul of all progress and advancement.

From Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil by Nordau, Max Simon

In conversation avoid the extremes of Forwardness and Reserve.

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver

If this Project, which is in a good Forwardness, and carried on apace, be ever finished, St. Peter’s Church will be possessed of a Treasure the more precious because there will be none like it.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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