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Patness

noun
1.
Timely convenience.  Synonyms: opportuneness, timeliness.





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... as a writer, — deficiencies which he never fully overcame, — for he writes: "I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a CONCEIT rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of ...
— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims


Words linked to "Patness" :   inopportuneness, convenience, pat, timeliness, opportuneness


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