frigidness

Example Sentences

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Its solemnity and frigidness mean it is also a place with a strong ethic of live-and-let-live.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2017

"I have a purchase to make here," she said with as much frigidness in her tones as she could call up.

From The Motor Girls by Penrose, Margaret

Thus the golden Fate turns and keeps turning; it is only when, through frigidness or fear, we refuse to revolve with it, that there ensues the discord of despair.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various

About them now was frigidness of death,—and silence tremendous….A gold flame kindled in the east.

From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio

The cloisters old, expounded on their walls With paintings, the Beatic Verity, The which—adorning their religious halls, Enriched the frigidness of their Austerity.

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles