recentness
Example Sentences
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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
I did not, till now, advert to the recentness of his appearance among us, and to the obscurity that hung over his origin and past life.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
At present, their minds are somewhat unsettled by the recentness of their progress; and in the exuberance consequent on such a state, some danger is to be apprehended.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
In the list of names upon the outer doors of the firm's vast labyrinthine suite, on the seventeenth floor of the Syndicate Building, his name came last—and, in the newest lettering, suggesting recentness of partnership.
From The Grain of Dust by David Graham Phillips
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
