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Rareness   Listen
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Rareness  n.  The state or quality of being rare. "And let the rareness the small gift commend."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rareness" Quotes from Famous Books



... well!" She looked obediently, glancing from it to his face, her own still with its unchanging calm, and wondered dully in her sex-specialized brain at the light of rapture in his countenance. He pored upon it, devouring its rareness of beauty, the sum and the detail of its perfection, with a joy as pure, an appreciation as generous, as if he had not stolen it from under the hands of a sick ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon

... misery; I bear my grief Hid from the World; how art thou wretched then? For ought I know, all Husbands are like me; And every one I talk with of his Wife, Is but a well dissembler of his woes As I am; would I knew it, for the rareness afflicts me now. ...
— The Maids Tragedy • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

... N. infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness &c 103; seldomness^; uncommonness. V. be rare &c adj.. Adj. unfrequent^, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few &c 103; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Rareness" :   rarity, rare, infrequency, scarceness, scarcity



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