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Freshness   /frˈɛʃnəs/   Listen
Freshness

noun
1.
The property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated.  "The freshness of the air revived him"
2.
Originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel.  Synonym: novelty.
3.
An alert and refreshed state.  Synonym: glow.
4.
Originality by virtue of being new and surprising.  Synonym: novelty.
5.
The trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties.  Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence.






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"Freshness" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the proper channel, having lost their own voices by these methods they were not competent to instruct others. How is it possible for them to guide the young singer when they cannot give a pure tone example themselves for the pupil to follow? Freshness and steadiness are the most valuable properties of a voice, but are also the most delicate and easily injured and quickly lost. When once really impaired they can never be restored. This is the condition ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson

... in the hands of speculators, musical Jew-brokers, who do a formidable business in old clothes, the worn-out musical celebrities of Europe;—often with great skill, often much to our pleasure and advantage; for it is much to us to hear great artists, even when the voice has lost some of its freshness, and to admire now what long ago perhaps exhausted admiration in the Old World. But the effect is bad on our domestic industry. We almost need a musical protective system. Our good old society concerts have been much thrown out of joint. Few of them of late, as compared with former years, have ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... and then ran off to frolic amid the waves, resuming her wonted garments in the same way, after her bath. Margaret, till now, had never seen the ocean. It inspired no fear—only delight and pleasure—and she hurried into the water like a sea nymph, enjoying its bracing freshness. For many successive mornings she went down, in company with several other girls of various ages, to bathe and sport with glee in the bright waters of a little bay, sheltered on either side by high rocks from ...
— Janet McLaren - The Faithful Nurse • W.H.G. Kingston

... of salt is in its veins, The freshness of the spray God give you love and lore and strength, To give us ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... the Colloquy and in some documents of the Cuchulainn cycle. Probably no other European folk-literature so takes advantage of just this situation, this meeting of creeds, one old and ready to vanish away, the other with all the buoyant freshness ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch


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