Redness
['rednɪs] or ['rɛdnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being red; red color.
Editor: Zeke
Examples
- A little redness or a little matter of Bone, here or there, what does it signify to Me? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- But the principle always failed us by some curious fatality, and we never could hit any medium between redness and cinders. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her eyelids had lost some of their redness now, and she had her usual air of self-command. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No, sir,' replied Bob, With no remains of the clown about him, save and except the extreme redness of his cheeks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Away in the distance was an angry redness of sunset. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was a pitiful redness about her sensitive nostrils, and her quivering lips. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Typist: Moira