Definitions
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- noun The quality of being elfish.
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- noun The quality or state of being
elfish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her winsomeness and her elfishness departed from her, she began to wither, she grew tense.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The pressure of her fingers accented the slight uptilt of her brows to elfishness, and her look was introspective.
The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain
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But his real reason was that he was bored by the perpetual elfishness of the Elves, and wanted to see the great ugly Trolls trying to behave like gentlemen for a change.
On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911
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I could understand how the fascination might become an enduring thing; a great love; how Ascher would still be drawn to the woman long after the elfishness of girlhood passed away.
Gossamer 1915 George A. Birmingham 1907
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It was a charming but not extravagant slip of bright green chiffon and suited her elfishness admirably, as he told her.
Black Oxen Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Tonsured doll-babies in flowered gowns, such as one buys at home in the Oriental shops, are walking about here alive, and flying queer-shaped kites, with a sort of calm unconscious elfishness befitting dwellers in fairyland.
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