Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being middling; mediocrity.
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Examples
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"I don't feel able to follow your advice of enjoying my own middlingness."
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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I make it a virtue to be content with my middlingness, "said Deronda, smiling;" it is always pardonable, so that one does not ask others to take it for superiority. "
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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I expect the picture to be welcomed for its middlingness. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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I expect the picture to be welcomed for its middlingness. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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I expect the picture to be welcomed for its middlingness. "
GreenCine Daily 2009
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