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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

The huddling together of our American cities is due to the recentness of the time when space was our greatest enemy and sparseness our chief discouragement.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 by Various

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

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

It is sufficient to have related events which the recentness of your intercourse with her hindered you from knowing but by means of some formal narrative like the present.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown


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