Whiteness
['hwaɪtnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) lightness or fairness of complexion; 'only the whiteness of her cheeks gave any indication of the stress from which she was suffering'.
Inputed by Kari--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.
(n.) Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.
(n.) Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.
(n.) Nakedness.
(n.) A flock of swans.
Checker: Uriah
Examples
- But all natural fabrics, whether they come from plants, like cotton and linen, or from animals, like wool and silk, contain more or less coloring matter, which impairs the whiteness. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her blue, bright dress fluttered in the wind, her thick scarlet stockings were brilliant above the whiteness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But the dazzling whiteness seemed to beat upon her till it hurt her, she felt the cold was slowly strangling her soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He looked through the tree trunks where the whiteness lay and up through the trees to where the sky was now clear. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I say _whiteness_--for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Was he a messenger, an omen of the universal dissolution into whiteness and snow? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was unbelievable that one could live there uncrushed by all this terrible waste of whiteness and silence and clear, upper, ringing cold. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Eva had a little pet pony, of a snowy whiteness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The whiteness of the teeth is not that of ivory, but of the snowiest and most gleaming of china. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- But when he saw his own eyes; ah, that was the final blow--a brown spot, a gray circle and then blank whiteness! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His face turned of an awful whiteness all over, and great beads of perspiration broke out on his bald forehead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I don't know what it was--Laura has refused to tell me--but I saw her face turn to such a deadly whiteness that I thought she would have fainted. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was a silence and a sheer whiteness exhilarating to madness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The fur of this species will thicken and its whiteness increase with every generation, until there is no advantage in carrying any more fur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But not that--it was the whiteness he seemed to enclose as he bent forwards, rowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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