Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Dearness. Browning.

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  • noun The quality of being darling, or adorable.

Etymologies

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darling +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • "Nettarion, Phabion, for the darlingness"; and for all her intellect and ardour, it is greatly _this_ that makes Balaustion queen -- the lovely eager sweetness, the tenderness, the "darlingness": Aristophanes guessed almost right!

    Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

  • Wiedeman might compete, though, in darlingness with the child, as the poem shows him.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • Wiedeman might compete, though, in darlingness with the child, as the poem shows him.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

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