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tallness

noun

Etymology

From tall + -ness.

  1. derived from *dol-✻
  2. inherited from *talaz✻ — “submissive, pliable, obedient”
  3. inherited from *tæl✻
  4. inherited from tall
  5. formed as tallness — “tall + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or characteristic of being tall.

    • The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits.

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