jejuneness

Example Sentences

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These attacks ended by opening his eyes to the comparative jejuneness of his own outlook on life.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness.

From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.

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 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund