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Meanings of briefness in English

The attribute of being brief or fleeting.

Usage of briefness in English
1
The briefness of the lucifers was merciful or merciless, as you like.
54-40 or Fight
2
But his counterplea when it came was of a disconcerting briefness and potency.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
3
It was written practically during the battle, so you must excuse its apparent briefness.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie / (commanding 1st Batt...
4
Then suddenly the reply, beautiful in its briefness, but at the same time explaining everything.
The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
5
The minister performed the ceremony with that briefness which consideration for a wounded person required.
Debts of Honor
6
The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony.
The Sea-Wolf
7
And briefness does but raise thy worth.
Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
8
And he made a speech which for expressive briefness surpasses anything I've ever heard, before or since:
Then I'll Come Back to You
9
Terry eyed him with withering briefness.
One Basket
10
This gives one a realizing sense of the frailness of a Mississippi boat and the briefness of its life.
Life on the Mississippi
11
In treating of the second portion of the first half of the book, 'Cloud Beauty,' briefness is now indispensable.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
12
I will be briefness itself.
After Dark
13
The very briefness of that order should have been warning enough, but Joe found it impossible to keep to himself his disapproval.
Then I'll Come Back to You
14
It was nervous, tingling work, for as surely as I sensed his intention of briefness, just as surely had he sensed mine.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
15
Coming from the lips of her father, Steve accepted gravely, with a matching briefness that could not hide a surge of triumph.
Then I'll Come Back to You
16
Be that my excuse for the briefness of this; but do not fail, my dear dear Anna, to write fully every thing that passes.
Anna St. Ives
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Briefness through the time