jejuneness

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The jejuneness and woodenness from which the modern religious story too often suffers are in no way chargeable upon all, or even many, of them.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law has by degrees been enriched and strengthened.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness.

From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.

And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

Through these influences my writing lost the jejuneness of my early compositions; the bones and cartilages began to clothe themselves with flesh, and the style became, at times, lively and almost light.

From Autobiography by Mill, John Stuart