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Antonyms for brokenness

Grammar : Noun
Spell : broh-kuh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbroʊ kən

Definition of brokenness

Origin :
  • late 14c., past participle adjective from break (v.). Broken record in reference to someone continually repeating the same thing is from 1944, in reference to scratches on records that cause the needle to jump back and repeat.
  • When Britain's Minister of State, Selwyn Lloyd[,] became bored with a speech by Russia's Andrei Vishinsky in UN debate, he borrowed a Dizzy Gillespie bebop expression and commented: "Dig that broken record." While most translators pondered the meaning, a man who takes English and puts it into Chinese gave this translation: "Recover the phonograph record which you have discarded." ["Jet," Oct. 15, 1953]
  • As in roughness : noun the quality of being rough on the surface
Example sentences :
  • Oh the brokenness that was amongst them in the flowings of life!
  • Extract from : « George Fox » by George Fox
  • One special want of the present moment is brokenness of spirit.
  • Extract from : « The All-Sufficiency of Christ » by Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • The foolishness would not be so noticeable if the Brokenness were not so hideous and genuine and actual and matter-of-course.
  • Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane
  • It is this brokenness, and continued breaking down, that is expressed by the word contrition.
  • Extract from : « Holy in Christ » by Andrew Murray
  • There is a brokenness in the utterance which makes it difficult to translate, but which is touchingly natural.
  • Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew » by John Monro Gibson
  • But first he kissed the ordaining hands, anointed as they had been to cast out evil from the heart and to bind up its brokenness.
  • Extract from : « St. Cuthbert's » by Robert E. Knowles
  • The magnitude of his own brokenness began to sink in and now he could barely hold back the tears.
  • Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
  • Conscious weakness, as a preparation for service, is one thing: brokenness is another.
  • Extract from : « Parables of the Christ-life » by I. Lilias Trotter
  • Our brokenness and openness must be two-way, horizontal as well as vertical, with one another as with God.
  • Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession
  • God will work in the other more through your brokenness than through anything else you can do or say.
  • Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession

Synonyms for brokenness

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