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BROKENNESS n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay.
BROTELNESS n.
Brittleness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BROTHERLINESS n.
The state or quality of being brotherly.
BROWNNESS n.
quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
BRUSHINESS n.
The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.
BRUSQUENESS n.
Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.
BRUTENESS n. 2 definitions
Insensibility. "The bruteness of nature." Emerson.
BUDGENESS n.
Sternness; severity. [Obs.] A Sara for goodness, a great Bellona for budgeness. Stanyhurst.
BUGGINESS n.
The state of being infested with bugs.
BULKINESS n.
Greatness in bulk; size.
BUMPTIOUSNESS n.
Conceitedness. [Colloq.]
BUNCHINESS n.
The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
BURLINESS n.
Quality of being burly.
BUSHINESS n.
The condition or quality of being bushy.
BUSINESS n. 7 definitions
hether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure. Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business Luke ii. 49.
BUSINESSLIKE a.
In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
BUTCHERLINESS n.
Butchery quality.
CALCAREOUSNESS n.
Quality of being calcareous.
CALMNESS n.
The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett.
CANDIDNESS n.
The quality of being candid.
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