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名詞

gaspingness (uncountable)

1. (rare) A gasping quality.
   • 1872, George Eliot, chapter 60, in Middlemarch‎, volume 3, page 328:

     “It is a proof before the letter, Mr Powderell—the painter is not known,” answered Trumbull, with a certain gaspingness in his last words, after which he pursed up his lips and stared round him.

   • 1894, F. Morley, “Three Notes on Permutations”, in Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society‎, volume 3, page 142:

     It will, I think, be conceded that the rule, so stated, appears very arbitrary to a class; and I suppose that many teachers, like myself, have experienced “a certain gaspingness” in laying it down.