gustfulness
English
Etymology
gustful + -ness
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡʌstfəlnəs/
Noun
gustfulness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Appealing taste; tastiness.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon):
- Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness.
- 1774, Thomas Harmer, Observations on Various Passages of Scripture:
- It was not any gustfulness in those herbs which they eat, which caused them to gather them, or the force of long-established habit, but the extremity of want.
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