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noun

Whiteness n.

The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc. "The whiteness in thy cheek."

Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. "He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept."

Nakedness. (Obs.)

(Zool.) A flock of swans.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sacrificed them naked, opening their breasts and taking out their hearts to offer them to the idols. This was seen by the Spaniards of Alvarado's division from {205} where they were fighting, and from the whiteness of the naked bodies which they saw sacrificed they knew them to be Christians; but although they suffered great sorrow and dismay at the sight, they effected a retreat to their camp after having fought gallantly that day, and carried their conquests almost to the market-place, which ...

— South American Fights and Fighters - And Other Tales of Adventure • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... from a too familiar intercourse; but one afternoon I saw him unbending there. He was nearly always accompanied by a dog, spotlessly white, the most ladylike of her species I remember to have seen. Her jet-black beady eyes and jet-black glittering nose set oflf the snowy whiteness of her coat, and were in turn set off by it. She had a refined, coquettish, mincing walk, which alone was enough to bespeak the agreeable sense she had of her own charms. Perhaps a satiric observer of manners might have thought her more like a lady's-maid than a lady. A suggestion ...

— Schwartz: A History - From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray • David Christie Murray

... satin background of the chair. She was dressed in a gown of silver gray cashmere lined with turquoise blue silk, which showed between the folds; cool colours of the best shade to set off the ivory whiteness ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... the patriarch gravely, "have shown a little respect for the length of my beard and the whiteness of my hairs. 'Tis hardly the way to speak to a man of my years and standing. One, too, who with the decline of the year expects to be at the ...

— Adventures in Toyland - What the Marionette Told Molly • Edith King Hall

... day grew. The airy flakes which a traveler—a Rouennais "pur sang"—once likened to a shower of cotton, had ceased to fall; a dirty gray light filtered through the heavy thick clouds which served to heighten the dazzling whiteness of the landscape, where now a long line of trees crusted with icicles would appear, now a cottage with a hood ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

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