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Curiousness   Listen
noun
Curiousness  n.  
1.
Carefulness; painstaking. (Obs.) "My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up."
2.
The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance.
3.
Inquisitiveness; curiosity.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Curiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... convenience and the curiousness of these arrangements; and look at the inlaying, child! It's the loveliest thing I ever saw in my life. Oh, I must have that! And it would be a sin to leave this screen, Dolly. Where ever do ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... the sick heart Often, we would rather be hurt than hurt Queer that things which hurt most can't be punished by law Rack of secrecy, the cruelest inquisition of life Sardonic pleasure in the miseries of the world Sympathy, with curiousness in their eyes and as much inhumanity Thanked him in her heart for the things he had left unsaid There is something humiliating in even an undeserved injury There was never a grey wind but there's a greyer Uses up your misery and makes you tired (Work) We ...
— Quotations From Gilbert Parker • David Widger
... besides, that Pericles made use of engines of battery in this siege, being much taken with the curiousness of the invention, with the aid and presence of Artemon himself, the engineer, who, being lame, used to be carried about in a litter, where the works required his attendance, and for that reason was called Periphoretus. But Heraclides Ponticus disproves ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough
... its curiousness, so attractive alike to sage and dilettante, lie its dim dangers, throwing across us shadows at once grotesque and awful. Plain it is to us that what the world seeks through desert and wild we have within our threshold;—a stalwart laboring force, suited to the semi-tropics; ...
— The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue • Various
... the curiousness of these arrangements; and look at the inlaying, child! It's the loveliest thing I ever saw in my life. Oh, I must have that! And it would be a sin to leave this screen, Dolly. Where ever do you ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner


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