lamentableness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lamentable + -ness.
Noun
[edit]lamentableness (uncountable)
- The state or characteristic of being lamentable.
- 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
- "If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos, its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and society girls and grandes dames."
- 1910, William Dean Howells, Imaginary Interviews, The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles:
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- “lamentableness”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.