jejuneness

Example Sentences

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

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

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

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

These attacks ended by opening his eyes to the comparative jejuneness of his own outlook on life.

From Jena or Sedan? by Beyerlein, Franz

It was the epoch of the Melizah, and the Melizah was to supplement the jejuneness of Rabbinism and oppose the Hasidim with good results.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum