fulness

fulness

English

Alternative forms

• fullness

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Noun

fulness (usually uncountable, plural fulnesses)

1. Dated form of fullness.
   • 1831, Henry Cogswell Knight, Lectures and Sermons (volume 2, page 104)

     On this amiable quality, the mind fixes its eye in unwithdrawing approbation; and the heart yields up the fulness of its fondness with unsatiated delight. Virtue is the beauty of the heavenly world […]

   1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 25:

   …yet in its fulness rather formidable and in its common appeal emotional…

Derived terms

• fulness of time

Anagrams

• funless, unselfs