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Definition: Sweetness And Light |
Sweetness And LightNoun1. A mild reasonableness; "when he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Author | Quotation |
Matthew Arnold | The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. |
| He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
all sweetness and light | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-s-s-s-t-t-w" | |
-4 letters: lengthinesses, wealthinesses. | |
-5 letters: disentangles, stealthiness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 77 65 65 74 6E 65 73 73 41 6E 64 4C 69 67 68 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110111 01100101 01100101 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S w e e t n e s s   A n d   L i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0077 0065 0065 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073 0041 006E 0064 004C 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538971718680718585235807024675737486 |
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