sweeping
adjective
of wide range or scope.
sweepingness
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a word derived from
sweeping.
Example Sentences
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The sweepingness of the assumption completes the flowing breadth of effect.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
He paused a moment, the least mite taken aback by the sweepingness of his proposition, then glanced belligerently around his little circle of listeners and repeated with emphasis: "No, sir! he'd never die!"
From Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories by Florence Finch Kelly
The very sweepingness of the assertion, the baldness, and I might say brutality with which it is made, are convincing in their suggestiveness of one who is laughing very quietly in his sleeve.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler
But when he goes on to say that "the sweepingness of the assumption completes the flowing breadth of the effect," he goes very near to talking nonsense.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury
