dulceness

English

Etymology

dulce +‎ -ness

Noun

dulceness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) sweetness
   • Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human.

     But above all, in this righting and helping of a man's self in his own carriage, he must take heed he shew not himself dismantled, and exposed to scorn and injury, by too much dulceness, goodness, and facility of nature;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dulceness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)