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whistness

noun

Etymology

From whist + -ness.

  1. inherited from whist
  2. suffixed as whistness — “whist + ness”

Definitions

  1. Silence.

    • Who dares cumber / This universall whistnesse; where none come, / But taciturnity, and silence dumbe?

  2. Witchcraft

    Witchcraft; supernatural dealings.

    • Other more learned derivations have been suggested, but the whole place is steeped in “whistness” for on the open hillside above the oak copse runs the ancient Lych way, that ghostly Path of the Dead […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for whistness. 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