Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being victorious.
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- noun The state or condition of being
victorious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Old W offering conflatuations on a great victoriousness for the country and the great state of Texas!
Gang Green grrm 2010
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In the final success of Reeves, it is the man himself who confronts one in the unique transcendency and victoriousness of personal merit.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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The world being four-ended, thou, O cross, art represented by us, and as a three-edged sword dost thou cut off the principles of darkness, being the great weapon of Christ and an invincible and all-powerful victoriousness.
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The unlikeness in particular is very striking, and shows that peculiar _victoriousness_ in accomplishing what he attempted which is so characteristic of Flaubert.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Every battle was a way to the blessing of victoriousness.
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Yet if they will lift up their eyes, they will see on the shore of the troubled sea of their little day's life the form of One whose presence will give them strength and confidence, and who will help them to victoriousness.
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It would lift them up to lofty attainment, to splendid victoriousness.
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If we live to be old it must be through our victoriousness over the unceasing antagonism of accident and disease.
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Ruthlessly abandoning the party of convicted trespassers, he stalked gloomily over to the side of Clarence, with the air of having been all the time scornfully in the secret and a mien of wearied victoriousness, and thus halting, he disdainfully expectorated tobacco juice on the ground between him and his late companions, as if to form a line of demarcation.
Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869
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It must argue and set off itself, and, without any assistances of favour, prevail entirely by the absolute victoriousness of truth.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823
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