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Abstruseness  n.  The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension.





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"Abstruseness" Quotes from Famous Books



... or strength of the body. Their untutored minds delighted themselves in the sly enigma, and the quaint conundrum. Much was their laughter at the wild guesses of the thoughtless and the giddy; and great the triumph of the swain who penetrated the mystery, and successfully removed the abstruseness of the problem. Many were the feats of skill exhibited by the dextrous shepherd, and infinite were the wonder and admiration of the gazing spectators. The whole scene indeed was calculated to display the triumph of stratagem and invention. A thousand deceits were practised upon the simple ...
— Imogen - A Pastoral Romance • William Godwin
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... refusal to criminate himself or inculpate friends, was, without trial, expelled by learned divines from his university for writing an argumentative thesis, which, if it had been the work of some Greek philosopher, would have been hailed by his judges as a fine specimen of profound analytical abstruseness—for that expulsion are we the debtors to theological charity and tolerance ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer • Charles Sotheran
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... the one grand vitalising idea of Al-Islam, "There is no god but God;"[FN336] and his deduction concerning the Pantheism of Force sounds unreal and unsound, compared with the sensible remarks upon the same subject by Dr. Badgers[FN337] who sees the abstruseness of the doctrine and does not care to include it in hard and fast lines or to subject it to mere logical analysis. Upon the subject of "predestination" Mr. Palgrave quotes, not from the Koran, but from the Ahadis or Traditional Sayings of the Apostle; but what importance attaches to a ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton
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... in deprecation. 'Ah, it is exactly that which is of such absorbing interest—exactly that! It is the abstruseness of the proposition which stimulates research—which stirs profoundly the brain of the thinking world. The question is of vital and instant importance. Possibly you have already ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers
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Words linked to "Abstruseness" :   profundity, profoundness, wisdom, reconditeness, obscurity


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