Etymology
Origin of verbality
Example Sentences
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"I will disarm him with smiles and pleasant words," she every day resolved; yet every day was she pierced anew with his arrowy verbality.
From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Lee, Minnie Mary
One feels that in the theologians' hands, they are only a set of titles obtained by a mechanical manipulation of synonyms; verbality has stepped into the place of vision, professionalism into that of life.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William
The "precise verbality" is merely a private trouble of the poets.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various
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