"dramaticness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1908, Patrick Vaux, The World’s Awakening, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 91",
          "text": "For soon were to sound out in all tragic dramaticness, now high now low, now in defeat and now jubilantly triumphant, the drums and tramplings of world-wide hostilities.",
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          "ref": "1909, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, “Mrs. Senter to Her Sister, Mrs. Burden”, in Set in Silver, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 336",
          "text": "The country began to look theatrical, which was a pleasant change after Wells, and all my native dramaticness began to surge in me.",
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          "ref": "1913, The Town Planning Review, page 301",
          "text": "The dramaticness of this growth has been thus intensified by the stagnation which naturally ensued upon the disasters with which the century began.",
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          "ref": "1915 May 20, “Two Cantatas at the High School”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXXIX, Hartford, Conn., page 6",
          "text": "All of the romance, pathos and dramaticness of the fascinating poetry of Longfellow in “Hiawatha” is brought out in the musical setting by the late Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in the two cantatas, “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast” and the “Death of Minnehaha,” which will be given by the choir of the Hartford Public High School in Foot Guard Hall Friday evening at 8:15 o’clock.",
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          "ref": "1916, George Howard Darwin, Scientific Papers, Cambridge: at the University Press, page xxx",
          "text": "My father would tell us the stories of the places we went to with an incomparable conviction, and sense of the reality and dramaticness of the events.",
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          "ref": "1995, Lesley Stern, “Meditation on Violence”, in The Scorsese Connection, Bloomington, Ind., Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press; British Film Institute, page 17",
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