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  • noun Plural form of hardness.

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Examples

  • The face is full of softnesses and hardnesses, flutters and rustles, colors and textures.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • The face is full of softnesses and hardnesses, flutters and rustles, colors and textures.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • Kyanite has a unique physical feature in that it has two different hardnesses.

    Kyanite 2008

  • As each work of his was ruined he withdrew further into the hardnesses of frosted pride, for he was of the stuff of fanatics.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • The table shows the types and hardnesses of the abrasives.

    2. Types and Mode of Action of Smoothing and Sanding Tools Rolf Jakoby 1993

  • She had her full share of difficulties, hardnesses, disappointments, and physical weakness; but, whatever her feelings were, she rose above them, and went on with her work.

    The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men" Minnie Lindsay Rowell Carpenter

  • Let us give the name of 'sense-data' to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on.

    The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell 1921

  • To give myself to fasting, watching, and prayer, to suffer or abstain or avoid, in a word all the hardnesses of life seem when compared with

    Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages William Ralph Inge 1907

  • None of them had knowledge enough, or insight enough, to conceive or sympathize with the humanity of the thirteenth century, to shudder at its cruelties and hardnesses and persecutions, or to comprehend the spiritual elevation and insight of its rarest minds.

    English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

  • Even in the Madonna of the Brera Gallery (1510), which shows Gian Bellino's finest landscape of the late time, certain hardnesses of colour in the main group suggest the possibility of a minor co-operation by Basaiti.

    The Earlier Work of Titian Phillips, Claude 1897

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