sweetness

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  1. The quality of being sweet, in any sense. Where the new-born brier Breathes forth the sweetness that her April yields. Quarles, Emblems, iv. 7. Be a princess In sweetness as in blood; give him his doom, Or raise him up to comfort. Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 5. We [the bees] have rather chose to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Swift, Battle of the Books. The charm of a yew bow is what archers call its sweetness—that is, its softness of flexure and recoil. Tribune Book of Sports, p. 13.

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  • It stood wide, and the warm air came in with that peculiar sweetness which is never felt by day. —  Through the Wall - Miss Silver - 1950 - Wentworth, Patricia
  • She is, in brief, 22 years old, a very, very pronounced blonde, not handsome (to common eyes), graceful and winning, not accomplished nor talented nor fond of books, gay as a bird, bright as sunshine, and has that immortal youth, that perennial freshness and sweetness which is the secret of permanent happiness. —  Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis
  • This sweetness is also being adopted in libzypp as well by providing a download handler using aria. —  Planet KDE
  • Inevitably, they err on the side of milky sweetness which isn't surprising given that the UK are still a nation of milk chocolate lovers. —  Chocablog
  • The rutabagas provide a bit of sweetness which is delicious. —  Sass & Veracity
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  1. from Middle English swetnesse, swotnesse, from Anglo-Saxon swētnes (= Old High German suoznassī, suaznissi, swuaznissa), from swēte, sweet: see sweet and -ness.
 

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