Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being elementary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
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- noun The state or condition of being
elementary .
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Examples
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And Prothero -- Prothero, too, was now achieving the same grand elementariness, out of his lusts and protests and general physical squalor he had flowered into love.
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These matters, of an immense elementariness I must add, should be and generally are acquired by all persons of any education in their childhood at school. "
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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