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- noun Plural form of
abstruseness .
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Speculation and common sense are at war on this point; and however we may "think with the learned," and follow the abstrusenesses of the philosopher, in the sequestered hour of our meditation, we must always act, and even feel, "with the vulgar," when we come abroad into the world.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831
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