forwardness

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Forwardness I allow is so; but there is a decent familiarity that is necessary in the course of life.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

The Forwardness of Youth, when it proceeds from Alacrity and not Insolence, has also its Allowances.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

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

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

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

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