commonplaceness

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In similar fashion, Alençon as a town has its commonplaceness condoned by reason of the beauty of its lace, a beauty which is constantly thrust upon your attention by its inhabitants.

From Stained Glass Tours in France by Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock

A heavy, or sometimes turgid, journalistic commonplaceness sat upon it.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

Yet the fate that grudged him prizes in his lifetime contrived afterwards to spread a veneer of commonplaceness over the success which it could not prevent.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

One who has never seen Rome is thus led to imagine that those of his country-people who have lived here for years have become in a manner purged of all natural commonplaceness.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

Let not the commonplaceness of the words rob us of their meaning.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill