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Bloatedness

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Bloat´ed`ness
n.1.The state of being bloated.
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Avey's extreme affliction is clearly a purging of the intense bloatedness she has been suffering, brought about by her swallowing of false values.
Embodying Cultural Memory in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow by Rogers, Susan / African American Review
Aside from a recurring feeling of bloatedness and nausea whenever she is faced with opulence, which is plentiful on board the ship, the memory evokes a desperation that leads her, in "The Sleeper's Wake," to relive her years with her husband Jay - her jealousy and his drive to succeed, and their mutual, though silent, agreement to forget their connections to the past in order to forge ahead into middle-class comfort and complacency.
The pull to memory and the language of place in Paule Marshall's 'The ... by Olmsted, Jane / African American Review
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