smoulderingness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

smouldering +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

smoulderingness (uncountable)

  1. The state of smouldering.
    • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers:
      Whether any of our national peculiarities may be traced to our use of stoves, as a certain closeness of the lips in pronunciation, and a smothered smoulderingness of disposition […]
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