单词 | unreadableness |
释义 | > as lemmasunˈreadableness unˈreadableness n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > dullness > unreadableness unreadableness1787 unreadability1825 1787 W. Thomson in tr. A. Cunningham Hist. Great Brit. I. Introd. p. xxxiii When we reflect on what Mr. Paton says, of the unreadableness of the notes on Vandewater's Horace..we shall be fully satisfied that it was the old hand in the specimen. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. vii. 74 Reason will not attempt to rescue him from condign sentence of unreadableness. 1913 Mod. Lang. Rev. 8 36 The Cantos are only redeemed from unreadableness by the fine similes, the lofty poetical touches. 1999 Art Jrnl. 58 90 The unreadableness of the languages is intended to evoke the limitations of human knowledge. < as lemmas |
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