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Commonplaceness. World English Historical Dictionary

Commonplaceness. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2022. Commonplaceness [f. as prec. + -NESS.] Commonplace quality, absence of striking or remarkable characteristics, dull uninteresting uniformity, ordinariness.

1 1842.  Sterling, Ess. & Tales (1848), I. 456. His speculations have the commonplaceness, vagueness, and emptiness of dreams.

2 a. 1864.  Hawthorne, Septimius Felton (1879), 105. The commonplaceness in which she spent her life.

3 1871.  M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., III. vi. 169. As I was before struck with the fluency of style … I was now equally so with its commonplaceness.

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