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Insubstantiality   Listen
Insubstantiality

noun
1.
Lack of solid substance and strength.
2.
Lacking substance or reality.





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"Insubstantiality" Quotes from Famous Books



... signs of a prolonged indulgence in the cushioned seat. Victor saw it. But would the people he loved? He agreed with Colney, forgetting the satirist's venom: to-wit; that the journalists should be close under their editor's rod to put it in sound bold English;—no metaphors, no similes, nor flowery insubstantiality: but honest Saxon manger stuff: and put it repeatedly, in contempt of the disgust of iteration; hammering so a soft place on the Anglican skull, which is rubbed in consequence, and taught at last through soreness to reflect.—A ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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