commonplaceness

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Wholesome Ella Jasper met the caller at the door with an inward cordiality entirely out of proportion to even a close friend of the family, but her greeting was commonplaceness itself.

From Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph

The Paston Letters are simply genuine family correspondence—of a genuineness all the more certain because of their commonplaceness.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his country-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

"I think—you made a mistake," he began it with commonplaceness, but his gesture softened the words.

From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Vorst, Marie Van

But the most curious thing, after all, is the want of delight in any of the principal figures, and the comparative meanness and commonplaceness of even the folds of the drapery.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) by Ruskin, John