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    muteness


    1. Thus, from his „Memories" of 1924:" „For it is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him, one is at peace where words play no torturing tricks


    2. In fact, she seemed to have expunged from her mind all memory of Duffy and, although she did not revert to muteness, she spoke even more seldom than before and I would often find her, standing silent and still, with a look of pre-occupation on her face, as if trying to recall something she had forgotten


    3. When I began this intermittent journal, all those years ago, it was with the intention of explaining to any future interested party, the tragic circumstances surrounding Anthea’s origins and the reason for her muteness, should anything untoward have happened to me


    4. It is what makes one's voice freed from the muteness of poverty


    5. I'm not sure whether his muteness was due to shock at having found a grandma alluring or the fact that I was sporting the most beautiful dark chocolate moustache


    6. launched into a structured explanation of why Jake had chosen his muteness as a means of


    7. I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely consists in this one phenomenon, especially when exhibited under any form at all approaching to muteness or universality


    8. By night the same muteness of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the blast


    9. There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes


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    Synonyms for "muteness"

    muteness silence mutism

    "muteness" definitions

    the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak


    a refusal to speak when expected