Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dearness. Browning.
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- noun The quality of being
darling , oradorable .
Etymologies
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darling + -ness
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Examples
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"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
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Wiedeman might compete, though, in darlingness with the child, as the poem shows him.
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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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