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Muchness

noun
1.
Greatness of quantity or measure or extent.






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"Muchness" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Guy Oscard at length, suddenly. "Whatever comes of this expedition of ours—if we fight like hell, as we probably shall, before it is finished—if we hate each other ever afterwards, that skin ought to remind us that we are much of a muchness." ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman

... 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



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