Lumberingness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being lumbering; awkwardness, ponderousness. uncountable
"[…] the English translator […] must not follow the model offered by Mr. Longfellow in his pleasing and popular poem of Evangeline; for the merit of the manner and movement of Evangeline, when they are at their best, is to be tenderly elegant; and their fault, when they are at their worst, is to be lumbering; but Homer’s defect is not lumberingness, neither is tender elegance his excellence."
Example
More examples"[…] the English translator […] must not follow the model offered by Mr. Longfellow in his pleasing and popular poem of Evangeline; for the merit of the manner and movement of Evangeline, when they are at their best, is to be tenderly elegant; and their fault, when they are at their worst, is to be lumbering; but Homer’s defect is not lumberingness, neither is tender elegance his excellence."
Etymology
From lumbering + -ness.
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