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Muchness   Listen
noun
Muchness  n.  Greatness; extent. (Obs. or Colloq.) "The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth."
Much of a muchness, much the same. (Colloq.) "Men's men; gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."






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"Muchness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pentstemon, "one funeral makes many. This time it's a wedding. But it's all very much of a muchness," said Uncle Pentstemon.... ...
— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

... her look, gleams of it shot with happiness to be there. "Is that what you've done at Martley? I shan't praise you when I see it. I hate too-muchness." ...
— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... these hillocks would be called even jury mountains, in that quarter of the world. They tell me there's several noblemen's and gentlemen's parks near Lunnun, where they make mountains just to look at; that must be much of a muchness with these here chaps. I never drift far from Wappin', when I'm at home, and so I can't say I've seen these artifice hills, as they calls them, myself; but there's one Joseph Shirk, that lives near St. Katharine's Lane, that makes trips regularly into the neighborhood, who gives quite ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper

... a muchness—no better, and perhaps no worse," said Sam. "All men who act entirely without any law in their actions arrive at much the same ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley



Words linked to "Muchness" :   much, archaicism, archaism, magnitude



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