jaguarness

jaguarness

English

Etymology

jaguar +‎ -ness

Noun

jaguarness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being a jaguar.
   • 1981, Stuart Hirschberg, Myth in the poetry of Ted Hughes: a guide to the poems, page 33:

     Hughes draws on this ancient concept and suggests that the jaguar calls up his rage to wear himself out from within to annihilate and free himself from his condition of enslavement — not to the bars but to his condition of 'jaguarness' which imprisons him […]

   • 2001, Peter Rivière, Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière:

     But this is a very good indication of what they think is happening when they are preparing curare. 'Jaguarness' is around, and it affects the hunters in their very being.

   • 2004, Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought, page 329:

     In our terms, it would be a representation of jaguarness.

   • 2014, Richard Mahler, Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat, page 33:

     This fundamental relationship—the foundation upon which the ABCs of “jaguarness” are built—remains something of a mystery.