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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