Definitionn. adhereing to the concrete construal of something
Last update: July 19, 2015
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The German rulers took Luther's advice with terrible literalness, and avenged themselves upon the peasants, whose lot was apparently worse afterwards than before. [Please select]
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Then ensued the brief period so affectionately described in all literalness as the Arcadian Age. [Please select]
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In all literalness the miners kept their gold-dust in tin cans and similar receptacles, on shelves, unguarded in tents or open cabins. [Please select]
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"Scarcely that," she replied gravely, with the literalness that often characterized her, "but he isn't a person easily forgotten." [Please select]
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And I do not do work for which I am not paid," he added, with mendacious literalness." [Please select]
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"I don't see any of it," she remarked with wholesome literalness. [Please select]
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Her feminine mind pounced on the gross literalness of his rhetorical figure. [Please select]
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Sam said, with the curious literalness of the poetic temperament, entirely devoid of humor. [Please select]
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--a unique contribution to the history of satire, when he went to work through literalness and care for beauty in a field where nearly all previous success had rested with a sort of ruffianism. [Please select]
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_ The credit for verbal literalness of translation is with Prout, but the spirit of the fiddler of Béranger glows through the free rendition of Field. [Please select]
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