recentness
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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
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
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
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
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
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