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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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ABOMINABLENESS n.
The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.
ABORIGINES n. 2 definitions
The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.
ABORTIVENESS n.
The quality of being abortive.
ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED a.
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
ABRUPTNESS n. 2 definitions
The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
ABSENTANEOUS a.
Pertaining to absence. [Obs.]
ABSENTNESS n.
The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.
ABSOLUTENESS n.
The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
ABSORPTIVENESS n.
The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
ABSTAINER n.
One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.
ABSTEMIOUSNESS n.
e, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
ABSTERSIVENESS n.
The quality of being abstersive. Fuller.
ABSTINENCE n. 2 definitions
ically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. Locke.
ABSTINENCY n.
Abstinence. [R.]
ABSTINENT a. 3 definitions
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Beau. & Fl.
ABSTINENTLY adv.
With abstinence.
ABSTRACTEDNESS n.
The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
ABSTRACTIVENESS n.
The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.
ABSTRACTNESS n.
The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
ABSTRUSENESS n.
The quality of being abstruse; difficulty of apprehension. Boyle.
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