fingent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Goethe, say his censors, has, in the poem in question, placed the Christian religion, with its self-denials and its stern verities, in unfavourable contrast with […] classic heathenism […] with its throng of […] poetic phantoms that made every hill and valley and fountain, every forest-glade and green field and sea-beach, so full of lovely and awful mystery for the busy fingent fancy of the early Greek."
- "He, as the Potter mouldeth on the wheel / The plastic clay, compelled the world to feel / The touch subduing of his fingent hand;"
- "But most of the time he thought about himself; he was the center of his earth; he could not yet escape into the fingent realm of general ideas."
- "The fingent hands of man! He has caught this eager pose and moulded the dog’s intensest moment in life to his own desires […]"