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Plaintiveness

noun
1.
Expressing sorrowfulness.





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"Plaintiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to try going straight on beyond Biskra, to the south, if I could find a caravan that would take me. That would be something new. Biskra is so commonplace now that it has been discovered and exploited." She went on, with a deep, wistful note of plaintiveness in her voice, "But everything's so commonplace now!" and added, "There's Java. I've never ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... great fault. No man, and, especially, no woman, likes to hear eternal plaintiveness. That she complain, and roundly complain, of your want of punctuality, of your coolness, of your neglect, of your liking the company of others: these are all very well, more especially as they are frequently but too just. But an everlasting complaining, without ...
— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett


Words linked to "Plaintiveness" :   ruthfulness, sorrowfulness, plaintive, mournfulness


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