The quality possessed by something with a great price or value.
Синонимы
Examples for "preciousness "
Examples for "preciousness "
1 A sense of the preciousness of the despised thing wakes in him.
2 A tale for the young, illustrative of the preciousness of Scripture promises.
3 Moreover they were taught industry, self-denial, benevolence, and the preciousness of time.
4 Underneath all the preciousness , his movements were careful, his face too still.
5 There is a certain precociousness and preciousness about young children's books.
1 The results were consequently very unsatisfactory, both as regards inaccuracy and costliness .
2 This room was an exquisite combination of costliness and comfort,-Luxuryat home.
3 It signifies this even in costliness ; but in form it signifies infinitely more.
4 The alarming costliness of the gift caused talk in the green-room.
5 From its costliness , however, this is only desirable for small work.
1 But he had not dreamed of the dearness of the little face.
2 They began rating the mighty one for the dearness of his corn.
3 But Giles himself recognized no decline in his sense of her dearness .
4 I see him in Bobbie; I feel him in Bobbie's dearness and naughtiness.
5 He is paid in proportion to the dearness of the article.
6 Every body complains of the dearness of coals, being at 4l.
7 Other people than Babylonian sculptors think that bigness is greatness, and dearness preciousness.
8 Georgie, with all her dearness , was almost too prosperous to understand.
9 Oh, the sweetness and the dearness of the daylight and the real world!
10 Beyond all was the assurance of her dearness to him.
11 But dearness or cheapness of food, when of a permanent character, may affect wages.
12 However, before you can judge of their dearness or cheapness, you must see them.
13 Ando knew all too well the dearness of family.
14 But let him simply enjoy a while the grateful sense of your nearness and dearness .
15 Soon after my arrival here, I think I mentioned to you the excessive dearness of
16 There had been a sweetness about her, a dearness .
Другие примеры для термина "dearness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more