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recentness



NOUN
newness
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His expertise is measured instead by the number and recentness of trips he has taken to the country.

From Newsweek ● Apr. 15, 2013

But first, in order that this colossal adventure may be fully grasped, the recentness and the remoteness of Alaska must be emphasized. 

From Revolution, and Other Essays by Jack London

There are meander designs, lightning, and drawings of cows and horses; but the latter were doubtless put on after the walls were demolished, and their general appearance denotes recentness.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz

How often had he faced a widowed mother and her daughter, in mourning so deep as to suggest the recentness of their loss.

From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton

The astonishing recentness of much of our most important knowledge is nowhere better illustrated than in the case of typhoid.

From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson


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