featness
English
Etymology
feat + -ness
Noun
featness (uncountable)
- (archaic) skill; adroitness
- 1925, Thomas Hardy, An Expostulation (poem), lines 1-4:
- Why want to go afar
- Where pitfalls are,
- When all we swains adore
- Your featness more and more
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for featness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)