10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNMENTIONABLENESS»
Discover the use of
unmentionableness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unmentionableness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Red as a Rose is She: A Novel
... at the rate of purity at which we are advancing, legs will soon walk off into the
limbo of silence and unmentionableness; arms will probably follow them, and
then perhaps noses. Although Miss Blessington looks shocked, St. John only
laughs.
2
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: ...
D'Ewesdoes notactually sayherewhat Bacon's “sin”is,but its declared “
unmentionableness”(acenturiesold code termfor homosexuality) strongly
suggests it is homosexuality, as does a process of elimination from the passage
as a whole —for ...
3
Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature
... rarely mentioned in these documents. Black unmentionableness is no doubt
due to the fact that, especially earlier in the colonial period, the greater
percentage of this group would have been in bondage, hence it was needless to
mention ...
Originally, I was inclined to ascribe this absence to their "unmentionableness." In
view of the lively concern for footwear shown by Geniza people, however, I
began to doubt the correctness of this explanation. Now I have learned from
Professor ...
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Red as a rose is she, by the author of 'Cometh up as a flower'.
... the rate of purity at which we are advancing, legs will soon walk off into the
limbo of silence and unmentionableness ; arms will probably follow them, and
then perhaps noses. Although Miss Blessing- ton looks shocked, St. John only
laughs.
6
English-Assamese Dictionary
J*R: n. unmentionableness. Unmindful, adj. JIOTfCItt n. unmindfulness..
Unmistakable, ad), fa 1?C^ *Ft>*?W i n. uamistakablenees-. XJnmoral, ad), 'sifof^
t I *. unmorality. Unmoved, ad) «W*;t,. 1X5^: Uouatn.ral, ad/, «iT<3Tfs^ ! C
unnaturalness.
7
Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother's Journey
"Not to name," one ofmy aunts says, "the unmentionableness oftheir desires.
Never enough, once or twice or more. And those things they use, unspeakable,
for a quarter from the service station restroom." "They just care about one thing,”
my ...
Karen Salyer McElmurray,
2011
8
Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the ...
Its unmentionableness triggered a number of euphemistic remodellings such as
the expletives blimey!, blast!, blow! and epithets blessed, bleeding, blinking,
blooming, blinding, blasted. Many of these, you'll notice, have blasphemous and
...
9
Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain
(18) Highwood's unmentionableness is,inother words, symptomatic of a larger
anticapitalist struggle – thefact that his work cannot even be mentionedin
dismissive tonesasign of the sheer danger it poses to 'Establishment circles'.
According to ...
Dr Benjamin Kohlmann,
2013
10
The Other Jewish Question: Identifying the Jew and Making ...
Even in its apparent unmentionableness, the mutual implication of circumcision
and _7udentum surfaced in German speech. “In contemporary German [c. 1843]
one says 'judsehen' or 'judisehen' instead of 'circumcise'; that means 'to make ...