turningness
English
Etymology
turning + -ness
Noun
turningness (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Philip Sidney to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 turningness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)