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

The recentness of the death of Rodney's mother gave an adequate excuse for such an arrangement, but the comparative narrowness of the Stantons' domestic resources enforced it.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

They had, indeed, lived a long time ago, but this was no disadvantage: any one who reads Tatian's Oratio ad Graecos can see how antiquity, not recentness, was regarded as desirable.

From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp

The extreme recentness of his inspiration is as enviable as the tale is startling that his productions tell of his being at home, domesticated and initiated, in this wicked and weary world.

From Views and Reviews by James, Henry

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 Brown, Charles Brockden