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donnishness

noun

Etymology

From donnish + -ness.

  1. suffixed as donnish — “don + ish”
  2. suffixed as donnishness — “donnish + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being donnish.

    • In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA