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killingness

noun

Etymology

From killing + -ness.

  1. inherited from kyllyng
  2. suffixed as killingness — “killing + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being devastatingly attractive.

    • […] especially when these showy garments were set off with a large bunch of flowers in the hand, or on the breast, which most of the young fellows displayed with conscious killingness.
    • […] and they daily sent each other little billets, remarkable for the aristocratic contempt which they showed for orthography; and little patterns of head-dresses, quite as remarkable for their grace and "killingness."

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