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ornateness

noun

Etymology

From ornate + -ness.

  1. learned borrowing from ōrnātus
  2. suffixed as ornateness — “ornate + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being ornate.

    • From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ornateness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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