residuum
Example Sentences
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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2015
"I have no objection to its being known that my death is voluntary," he wrote, "and I desire cremation as simply and quickly as possible, with no residuum anywhere."
From Time Magazine Archive
Stanzas of final peace Lie in the heart's residuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
The danger of "an undefined residuum of power," he added, is "that it might lead under emergencies to results of an arbitrary character, doing irremedial injustice to private rights."
From Time Magazine Archive
The scanty residuum of hostile evidence proves to be Origen and three Codexes,—of which two are cursives.
From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
