crampednessn.
Cramped quality; narrowness resulting from restraint.
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1858 Sat. Rev. 21 Aug. 193/1 The crudeness and crampedness of monkish annalists.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Nov. 2/1 There is..an irritating..sameness of subject and crampedness of treatment in the pictures.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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