Dyingness

Definitions

  • Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
    • n Dyingness The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment. "Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness ; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so."
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
    • n dyingness The state of dying; hence, a state simulating the approach of death, real or affected; affected languor or faintness; languishment.
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