jejuneness
Example Sentences
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They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law has, by degrees, been enriched and strengthened.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
Moreover it is to be remembered that there is another vice of style to be shunned in liturgical composition quite as carefully as sentimentality, namely, jejuneness.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness, of baldness.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
It was the epoch of the Melizah, and the Melizah was to supplement the jejuneness of Rabbinism and oppose the Hasidim with good results.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
