The quality of being mentally slow and limited.
1 The daring anger within her was turned into the rage of dumbness .
2 No disease comes amiss to it; it cures blindness, deadness, deafness, dumbness .
3 It was true that Falkner developed chronic dumbness in Larry's conversational presence.
4 His lean malevolent face and sunken eyes, his very dumbness chilled me.
5 The dumbness , e.g., with which Ezekiel was afflicted for a period, iii.
6 Molly says, at length awakening to the fact of her lover's dumbness .
7 I learned long ago there's much to be said for dumbness .
8 There was something cruel in the absolute dumbness of the night.
9 From her state of petrified dumbness , Kara now sprang into being.
10 For a moment there was silence between them- anaturalsilence, and no dumbness .
11 Zia could not speak, being stricken with fear and the dumbness of bewilderment.
12 They are proof against the alleged dumbness of the ages just preceding Dante's.
13 The gentle dumbness which often held her did not trouble him.
14 They were dumb with the tragic, eloquent dumbness of their kind.
15 Cally Heth, indeed, stood in a dumbness which she seemed powerless to break.
16 The Hessians suffered severely by their self-imposed dumbness , but they suffered like Stoics.
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