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ravenness

noun

Etymology

From raven + -ness.

  1. derived from *ḱrep-✻ — “to crackle; to rattle”
  2. inherited from *hrabnaz✻ — “raven”
  3. inherited from *hrabn✻ — “raven”
  4. inherited from hræfn — “raven”
  5. inherited from raven
  6. suffixed as ravenness — “raven + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being a raven.

    • Not only are shoes and ravens not exchangeable, but it is to say the least questionable whether we should regard ravenness as positively relevant to blackness on the evidence of the white shoe.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ravenness. 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