Moreover it is to be remembered that there is another vice of style to be shunned in liturgical composition quite as carefully as sentimentality, namely, jejuneness.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
The jejuneness and woodenness from which the modern religious story too often suffers are in no way chargeable upon all, or even many, of them.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law has by degrees been enriched and strengthened.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke