Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A withered state or condition.
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- noun The state of being
withered .
Etymologies
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withered + -ness
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Examples
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There was witheredness, almost lifelessness, in Ostrov's voice:
The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895
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Every trace of the decrepitude and witheredness she showed as she hovered like a film about her wheel, had vanished.
The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald 1864
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It is so silly of people -- I don't mean you, for you are such a tiny, and couldn't know better -- but it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness!
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald 1864
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