uncommonness
Example Sentences
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At the same time, the uncommonness of his big-picture analysis and the apparent difficulty of tracking down Cops’ more reluctant participants speak to their arduousness.
From Slate ● May 24, 2019
What is telling is that his uncommonness is not marshaled on the show to help comedy’s commoners.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2014
He said he had been roused by a sound, whose power of disturbing him arose, not from its loudness, but from its uncommonness.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
When he did begin to speak, his wife was pleased to note that he was less inclined to investigate the cause of the phenomenon than to speculate upon its uncommonness.
From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee
The uncommonness of the proposal raised at once his surprise and curiosity; and when, after a short deliberation, he consented to admit her, he could not stay without impatience till the next day.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
