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n. The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Profitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Alacrity. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Ambiguity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Quality of being anomalous. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being apetalous. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Wateriness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being awless. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Same as Bascinet. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being destitute of beard. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being bilious. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being blameless; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. the quality of being infinite.
n. The state of being breathless or out of breath. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Conceitedness. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Quality of being calcareous. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. lack of passion or feeling.
n. The quality of being musical. [ 1913 Webster ]
He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Captious disposition or manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligence; inattention. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being causeless. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being cautious. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being childless. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess. [ 1913 Webster ]
Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]
The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being compendious. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or “ego” of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
And, when the steam
Which overflowed the soul had passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left.
. . . images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and can not be destroyed. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]
An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Quality of being contagious. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. [ 1913 Webster ]
To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden.
n. [ AS. corsn&aemacr_;d. ] (AS. Laws) The morsel of execration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. Burril. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being courageous; courage. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]
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When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.