thewlessness
nounEtymology From thewless + -ness.
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The state, quality, or condition of being thewless
- A consequence of this which only worsens the intellectuals' thewlessness is that their antagonists are preaching a salvationary religion, and as Max Weber has said, such religions attract social strata in decline.1970, The Alternative: An American Spectator - Volumes 4-5
- The cloying diminution of signification and significance—indeed the thewlessness of all aspects of meaning, whether semantic, syntactic or pragmatic—that befalls the conscious mind as a result of its tendance upon a symbol [...]1977, Richard League, Psycholinguistic Matrices: Investigation into Osgood and Morris:
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- That thewlessness is a pointed recollection of the last lines of "History": "Let us go down," Canaan's invaders tell themselves as they pause before descending to pillage and take possession, [...]2006, Randolph Runyon, Ghostly Parallels: Robert Penn Warren and the Lyric Poetic Sequence: