Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being middling; mediocrity.

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Examples

  • "I don't feel able to follow your advice of enjoying my own middlingness."

    Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849

  • 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

  • I expect the picture to be welcomed for its middlingness. "

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • I expect the picture to be welcomed for its middlingness. "

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • I expect the picture to be welcomed for its middlingness. "

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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