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expressiveness|ɛkˈsprɛsɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being expressive.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. iv. §39 Our English tongue was not improved to that expressivenesse whereat at this day it is arrived. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. (1721) I. 209 The Murrain at the end [of the third Georgic] has all the Expressiveness that Words can give. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 282 This praxis is to show the peculiar force or expressiveness of a great many single words. 1751Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 324 We should study what St. James, with wonderful..expressiveness, calls meekness of wisdom. 1812Examiner 11 May 301/2 A song..composed..in a style of great expressiveness and insinuation. 1883A. Roberts Old Test. Revis. vi. 134 Passages of rich expressiveness occur. |