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noun

Yellowness n.

The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.

Jealousy. (Obs.) "I will possess him with yellowness."

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Etymology of 'Yellowness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Yellowness" Quotes from Famous Books

... great deal o' yellowness in your face," exclaimed she, after a careful survey; "but ...

— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May

... of the weariness of those old waters, the mournful slowness of their flow along that Babylonian trench where they were confined within huge, bare, livid prison-like walls. In the sunlight their yellowness was gilded, and the faint quiver of the current brought ripples of green and blue; but as soon as the shade spread over it the stream became opaque like mud, so turbid in its venerable old age that ...

— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... let down a bucket by its heavy chain with a doomsday clank. The sunlight revealed the smallness and brilliancy and number of her black braids and the infinite multitude of her wrinkles, as well as the yellowness of her dangling gold earrings and the texture of her parchment-like arms, which were the color of glossy brown leaves. Sometimes she would awaken me from soporific melancholy by allowing herself to be found upon her knees in ...

— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

... Roderick's sister, Angelina, does So far exceed her, in the ornaments Of wit and beauty, though now hid from sight, That, like the sun, (even when eclipsed) she casts A yellowness upon all ...

— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott

... editorial writers of that very paper are given to frequent and sneering attacks on the alleged yellowness and the boasting proclivities of the jingo Yankee sheets; also, they are prone to spasmodic attacks on the laxity of our marriage laws. Perhaps what they say of us is true; but for unadulterated nastiness I never saw anything in print to equal the front ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

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