Crossword-Solution: BRITTLENESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Brittleness | n. | Aptness to break; fragility. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BRITTLENESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| crispness | 1 answer |
| the state of being brittle | 1 answer |
| BAGGINESS | 2 answers |
| borderline case | 5 answers |
| fragility | 6 answers |
| fluidity | 14 answers |
| Eggshell | 31 answers |
| Touch and go? | 43 answers |
| Bubble | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZECAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BRITTLENESS (5)
Well, let her know the stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O’er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.
And truely it sits* well to be so, *becomes, befits That bachelors have often pain and woe: On brittle ground they build, and brittleness They finde when they *weene sickerness:* *think that there They live but as a bird or as a beast, is security* In liberty, and under no arrest;* *check, control Whereas a wedded man in his estate Liveth a life blissful and ordinate, Under the yoke of marriage y-bound; Well may his heart in joy and bliss abound.
Ten hundred thousand stories tell I can Notable of your untruth and brittleness * *inconstancy O Solomon, richest of all richess, Full fill’d of sapience and worldly glory, Full worthy be thy wordes of memory To every wight that wit and reason can.
Yes, and it is the wages of being, the payment in full for all the brittleness and frailty of flesh and breath.
Numerous veins of jasper and of siliceous sinter, occurring on the summit of this same hill, show that there has been some abundant source of silica, and as these plate-like veins differ from the trachyte only in their greater hardness, brittleness, and less easy fusibility, it appears probable that their origin is due to the segregation or infiltration of siliceous matter, in the same manner as happens with the oxides of iron in many sedimentary rocks.
Quotes with BRITTLENESS (3)
Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.
It was in these moments, I knew, that my father loved my mother most. When my mother was broken and helpless, when her hard shell was stripped away and her spite and brittleness couldn't serve her. It was a sad dance of two people who were starving to death in each other's arms. Their marriage an X that forever joined murderer to victim.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.