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frozenness - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun frozen .
Etymologies
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frozen + -ness
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If he lay passive, he would sink, while frozenness above slid down to keep him in his grave.
The Clique 2010
We can move out of our frozenness and into a spontaneous give and take.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Living in the Moment 2009
Valuable psychic energy that could be used in service of our own forward movement gets held in an unconscious, psychic frozenness .
Dr. Tian Dayton: An Integrated National Psyche 2008
The real question is whether there is any legitimate reason to hope for anything beyond brokenness, frozenness , tedium, and inexpression.
Philocrites: Despair, resurrection, and religious liberalism. 2007
The real question is whether there is any legitimate reason to hope for anything beyond brokenness, frozenness , tedium, and inexpression.
Philocrites: April 2007 Archives 2007
One antidote, I think, is to awaken from the frozenness of our demoralization and say no to that war before the idea congeals even one more degree toward reality.
Calling for Peace 2007
Tongues of dark cloud drifting high above -- forerunner of the storm -- lent him a slight illusion of motion, at the same time as the remaining hot brightness of the sky contradicted that frozenness .
Asimov's Science Fiction 2005
His mouth was too wet, she thought, and she was sorry, wishing that the kiss was different from other ones, so different as to ease her sexual frozenness of all these years and change the legend so that it now read: I used to be uncomfortable with myself as a sexual being, until I met a man I could love.
The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005
He stumbled over frozenness that still trembled, to the verge of the cleft.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
Nearly everything we had for lunch was in a more or less advanced state of frozenness , from the bouillon, ever so far along to the ices in the shape of different-coloured fruits, toward the end.
Lady Betty Across the Water Orson Lowell 1889
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