Meaning of Woodenness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being wooden (often in a figurative sense).

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“There is hardly a house but is divided against itself, for our foe is the all but universal woodenness of both head and heart, the want⟳ of vitality in man, which is the effect of our vice; and hence are begotten fear, superstition, bigotry, persecution, and slavery of all kinds.”

“[…] Marigold’s smile⟳ faded into woodenness […]”

“What of him then? If no woman has yet detected, behind his woodenness, his clenched grimness, any flicker of the sacred fire […]”

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