dyingness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
dyingness (uncountable)
- The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor.
- 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, — a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so.
References[edit]
“dyingness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.