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- noun Plural form of
abstrusity .
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Examples
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She did not understand his financial abstrusities, and he did not trouble to make them clear.
The Financier 2004
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They were bound up in metaphysical abstrusities about which he did not care to bother.
The Financier 2004
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He will perfect himself in special mathematics, or an ancient language, or the lore of fanfares, or all three, or three other abstrusities.
Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975
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Whereas revelation, extricating man from the labyrinth of transcendental abstrusities, presents him at once with a well constructed system of theological science, which he has only to receive within his bosom, to lead a happy life on earth, and attain his true goal beyond the grave.
A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth Isaac Samuele Reggio
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Pioneer people are too intent on maintaining life to go into the abstrusities of either ethics or theology.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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She did not understand his financial abstrusities, and he did not trouble to make them clear.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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The abstrusities of the stock exchange were as his A B C's to him.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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They were bound up in metaphysical abstrusities about which he did not care to bother.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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Beside this there were societies where all sorts of abstrusities and absurdities were argued to a standstill.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Books die and disintegrate, but humanity is an endless procession, and the souls that go marching on are those who fought for freedom, not those who speculate on abstrusities.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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