Meaning of Sordidness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality or state of being sordid.
   uncountable
2. The product or result of being sordid.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“[W]e muſt not take⟳ this mercifull indulgence given to our defectuoſities, as a diſpenſation for the ſordidnes of our loves, but rather in a holy effect and contention of gratitude, ſtrain to love⟳ God the more purely, and irreſpectively to our ſelves, in regard of the tranſcendent benignity of this diſpenſation.”

“Every possible care was taken of him, and in a day or two he was able to walk⟳ into the study⟳ again, where he sat gazing at the sordidness and unneatness of the apartment, the strange festoons and drapery of spiders' webs, […]”

“A brooding Northerner, Verhaeren sees the sorrow, the travail, the sordidness, going on all about him, and loves the world just the same, […]”

“His was a nature—weak I own⟳—that felt a sordidness in narrow means and their attendants; the ugliness of poverty pained his spirit.”

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