The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. Chaucer.
Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek." Shak.
Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron.
Nakedness. [Obs.] Chapman.
A flock of swans.
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