jejuneness
Example Sentences
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Through these influences my writing lost the jejuneness of my early compositions; the bones and cartilages began to clothe themselves with flesh, and the style became, at times, lively and almost light.
From Autobiography by Mill, John Stuart
The jejuneness and woodenness from which the modern religious story too often suffers are in no way chargeable upon all, or even many, of them.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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 Slouschz, Nahum
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 Burke, Edmund
