fatness

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A swift carriage, manned by a bulky coachman of that spacious degree of fatness which is fashionable in Russia, bore her to her hotel along wide monotonous ways, flanked with dull buildings.

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  1. The state or quality of being fat, plump, or full-fed; fullness of flesh; corpulency. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness. Deut. xxxii. 15. Asay, the point in the breast of the buck at which the hunter's knife was inserted to make trial of the animal's fatness. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), Gloss.
  2. Unctuousness; sliminess: applied to earth; hence, richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Right fatte or dounged lande thai loveth best, Or valey ther hilles fattenesse hath rest. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 207. God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Gen. xxvii. 28. The clouds dropp'd fatness. Philips, Cider.
  3. Grossness; sensuality. In the fatness of these pursy times, Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4.

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  • The recent announcement of a "fat rat gene" suggests what we knew all the time--fatness is hereditary. —  Omni: April 1995
  • This man's fatness was a softness and a roundness, so that he looked like a bunny rabbit, somehow. —  128 - The Goblins
  • I'm not saying fatness is an irrelevant issue altogether. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • "We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognise it as a key factor in the battle to reduce (carbon) emissions and slow climate change," the British scientists said. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • "We need to be doing a lot more to reverse the global trend towards fatness, and recognise it as a key factor in the battle to reduce emissions and slow climate change." —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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  1. from Middle English fatnes, from Anglo-Saxon fætnes, fætness, from fæt, fat, + -nes, -ness.
 

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