forehandedness
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Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been ready since quarter past six, and with his forehandedness had worried his friends as effectually as the put-offer had hers.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Mary Mapes Dodge
One suspects that the Secretary may have been more complacently convinced of the forehandedness of the bureau chiefs than was his impatient associate.
From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland
There ain't anything specially lovable about forehandedness, when you come to that.
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
It was one of the delightful results of Katy's "forehandedness" that she could command time during those next two days to thoroughly enjoy Cousin Helen.
From Clover by Susan Coolidge
