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Meanings of dumbness in English

The quality of being mentally slow and limited.

Usage of dumbness in English
1
The daring anger within her was turned into the rage of dumbness.
Daniel Deronda
2
No disease comes amiss to it; it cures blindness, deadness, deafness, dumbness.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
3
It was true that Falkner developed chronic dumbness in Larry's conversational presence.
Together
4
His lean malevolent face and sunken eyes, his very dumbness chilled me.
Under the Red Robe
5
The dumbness, e.g., with which Ezekiel was afflicted for a period, iii.
Introduction to the Old Testament
6
Molly says, at length awakening to the fact of her lover's dumbness.
Molly Bawn
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I learned long ago there's much to be said for dumbness.
Lonesome dove
8
There was something cruel in the absolute dumbness of the night.
Victory: An Island Tale
9
From her state of petrified dumbness, Kara now sprang into being.
The Lost Sisterhood
10
For a moment there was silence between them- anaturalsilence, and no dumbness.
A Daughter of To-Day
11
Zia could not speak, being stricken with fear and the dumbness of bewilderment.
The Little Hunchback Zia
12
They are proof against the alleged dumbness of the ages just preceding Dante's.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" / A Course of Lectures...
13
The gentle dumbness which often held her did not trouble him.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
14
They were dumb with the tragic, eloquent dumbness of their kind.
One Basket
15
Cally Heth, indeed, stood in a dumbness which she seemed powerless to break.
V. V.'s Eyes
16
The Hessians suffered severely by their self-imposed dumbness, but they suffered like Stoics.
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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