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2,949 words match “QUALITY”

CORRELATIVENESS n.
Quality of being correlative.
CORRIGIBILITY n.
Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
CORRIGIBLENESS n.
The state or quality of being corrigible; corrigibility.
CORRODIBILITY n.
The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.
CORROSIBLENESS n.
The quality or state of being corrosible. Bailey.
CORROSIVE a. 2 definitions
Having the quality of fretting or vexing. Care is no cure, but corrosive. Shak. Corrosive sublimate (Chem.), mercuric chloride, HgCl2; so called because obtained by sublimation, and because of its harsh irritating action on the body tissue. Usually it is in the form of a heavy, transparent, crystalline substance, easil…
CORRUPTIBILITY n.
The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.
CORRUPTIVE a.
Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
CORRUPTNESS n.
The quality of being corrupt.
COSMOPOLITANISM n.
The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
COSTLINESS n.
The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
COTIDAL a.
Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.
COUNTERMARK n.
ficer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.
COURAGE n.
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution. The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, I have no relish of them. Shak. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man…
COURAGEOUSNESS n.
The quality of being courageous; courage.
COURTEOUSNESS n.
The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
COURTLINESS n.
The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
COYNESS n.
The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden.
COZINESS n.
The state or quality of being cozy.
CRAGGEDNESS n.
The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
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