whiteness

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  1. The state of being white; white color, or freedom from any darkness or obscurity on the surface. Says Al Kittib, they [the Moors] displayed teeth of dazzling whiteness, and their breath was as the perfume of flowers. Irving, Granada, i.
  2. Lack of color in the face; paleness, as from sickness, terror, or grief; pallor. Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1.68.
  3. Purity; cleanness; freedom from stain or blemish. I am she, And so will bear myself, whose truth and whiteness Shall ever stand as far from these detections As you from duty. Beau. and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, i. 1. He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron, Childe Harold, iii. 57.

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  1. from Middle English whytnesse, whitnesse; from white + -ness.
 

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