Definitions
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- noun The quality of being
Persian .
Etymologies
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Persian + -ness
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Examples
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If any paragraph in the English language could crystallize "Persianness" -- that unique amalgam of ancient romanticism, Stalinist modernity, and millennial decline -- this was it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Sohrab Ahmari 2011
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The Pahlavi kings of the twentieth century pretended to be the legitimate successors of the Achaemenids and emphasized Persianness over Islam, exhorting the world to call their land "Iran."
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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