Example Sentences

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This setting assures there is “that concrete adverseness which sharpens the presentation of issues upon which the court so largely depends for illumination of difficult constitutional questions.”

From MSNBC • Jul. 22, 2015

The pursuit lasted until the Britons took refuge in a fastness of those parts, and the night parted the adverseness one from the other.

From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Mason, Eugene

If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman