recentness

Example Sentences

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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.

From Newsweek • Apr. 15, 2013

It is sufficient to have related events which the recentness of your intercourse with her hindered you from knowing but by means of some formal narrative like the present.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last—and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership.

From The Grain of Dust by Phillips, David Graham

The astonishing recentness of much of our most important knowledge is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of typhoid.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

The extreme recentness of his inspiration is as enviable as the tale is startling that his productions tell of his being at home, domesticated and initiated, in this wicked and weary world.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry