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
They had, indeed, lived a long time ago, but this was no disadvantage: any one who reads Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos can see how antiquity, not recentness, was regarded as desirable.
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Kirsopp Lake
I did not, till now, advert to the recentness of his appearance among us, and to the obscurity that hung over his origin and past life.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
The recentness of the death of Rodney's mother gave an adequate excuse for such an arrangement, but the comparative narrowness of the Stantons' domestic resources enforced it.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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 Charles Brockden Brown
